nyc4...@aol.com writes: > I was trying out Emacs and dbus-send and ran int a minor > problem. > > I sent the following: > > dbus-send --session --print-reply --dest=org.gnu.emacs.TextEditor \ > /org/gnu/emacs/TextEditor org.gnu.emacs.TextEditor > > It sucessfully created an emacs process. > > However, I got the message: > > Error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible > causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus > security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network > connection was broken. > > > My .service file contains: > > [D-BUS Service] > Name=org.gnu.emacs.TextEditor > Exec=/usr/bin/emacs-x11 > > Is the emacs dbus binary setup to send replies?
Emacs does not listen to the org.gnu.emacs.TextEditor service by default. It was just given as example in the doc. If you want to let Emacs reply to a method, you must load a file at startup, which calls dbus-register-method for the requested interface/method. > Thanks. Best regards, Michael. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
