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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE in prefix install
From:       Sebastian =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=FCgler?= <sebas () kde ! org>
Date:       2018-03-28 15:14:36
Message-ID: 9701484.2iZ1O3QTCm () miro
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What I usually do is copy the dbus files into the system paths, see attached 
script. That should also make it work (after dbus restart).

-- sebas

On woensdag 28 maart 2018 12:52:16 CEST Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote:
> So after leaving neon to use a newer ubuntu (needed it for my hardware), I
> have started building KDE myself again and tried setting my tradition
> install in /opt and building with kdesrc-build.
> 
> I ran into a number of issues, many minor things I have already fixed by
> patches. But there were two bigger issues with dbus-1 and polkit.
> 
> First kscreen doesn't work because it can't find its backends. While not
> easily found, I did eventually find suggestions online to fix this by adding
> a file in /etc/dbus-1/session.d with the prefix service dir. I talked to
> the dbus people and they seemed positive about automatically using XDG env
> variables to do that automatically in the future, but currently you still
> need to add that file. Perhaps kdesrc-build could document that and maybe
> have a sudo install mode that installs that?
> 
> The second issue was that powerdevil brighness controls didn't work. This
> was because of something similar with the actions and services not
> installed for polkit-1, this is a bit more complicated as polkit-1 does not
> allow you to add extra prefix directories. So you need to add the actions
> in /usr/share/ polkit-1/actions. And those files you need to install are
> not even generated. I have tracked it down abit and found that kauth
> actually has a tool to generate the action files and have a cmake command
> kauth_install_actions that is even used by powerdevil, but the .policy
> files are still not generated nor installed in prefix or /usr/share by
> kdesrc-build. Anyone know why this is?
> 
> 'Allan


-- 
sebas

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["sync-dbus-services.sh" (sync-dbus-services.sh)]

#!/bin/bash


#sudo cp /home/sebas/kf5/install/share/polkit-1/actions/* /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/  

sudo cp /home/sebas/kf5/install/share/dbus-1/interfaces/* /usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/
sudo cp /home/sebas/kf5/install/share/dbus-1/services/* /usr/share/dbus-1/services/
sudo cp /home/sebas/kf5/install/share/dbus-1/system-services/* /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/


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