Dbus changed?

[Reid Rivenburgh]

On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 9:12 PM, Rahul Sundaram
<sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On 05/25/2009 08:19 AM, Reid Rivenburgh wrote:
>> Another thing that's no longer working after upgrading to F11 is a
>> perl program I have that detects the screen being locked.  It
>> basically reads output from this command:
>>
>> my $cmd = "dbus-monitor --session
>> \"type='signal',interface='org.gnome.ScreenSaver',member='SessionIdleChanged'\"";
>>
>> (FYI, I call gdmflexiserver to bring up the gdm login when the
>> screen's locked.)  It never generates any output when I lock the
>> screen now.  Has this changed?  I saw something in the release notes
>> about dbus, but it sounded more like a SElinux thing.
>
> Not sure why that isn't working but the DBus changes have nothing to do
> with SELinux. Details at
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DBusPolicy

Thanks for the pointer.  My mistake about SELinux; I don't use it, but
I guess I think of it when I see "security policy".  And like you,
still not sure why dbus-monitor isn't working....

Reid