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Is Gnome-Do meant keep running as a process after disappearing?

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Every time I open Gnome-Do and do whatever, it leaves a process running in the background. Eventually I'll have a thousand little Gnome-Do's running and not showing, all seeming to reserve some measure of resources. Is this intentional for some purpose?

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David Siegel (djsiegel-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#1

Please provide some details about the system you are using -- distro, version, etc. You are not experiencing the expected behavior. It sounds like you don't have DBus.

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Pimple (ferociouscookiemonster) said : 		#2

Ah, I think that may very well be it. I do have dbus installed, but don't recall doing anything besides merging it (gentoo ftw), and I've had a few other programs complaining about it, though I haven't noticed any effect there. I'll look into that. Thanks :)

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Pimple (ferociouscookiemonster) said : 		#3

Hmm I don't get this. I've updated Dbus to 1.1.2, but there's no difference, even when I run it with dbus-launch. I do, however, get these two error messages like a thousand times when I run it in the terminal:

(/usr/lib/gnome-do/Do.exe:7992): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_hash_table_lookup: assertion `hash_table != NULL' failed

(/usr/lib/gnome-do/Do.exe:7992): libgnomevfs-WARNING **: Internal error: the configuration system was not initialized. Did you call _gnome_vfs_configuration_init?

I'll have to do some googling for that.

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Jymbob (james-scholes) said : 		#4

Are you launching it with another "gnome-do" command every time? That would explain what you're seeing, as you'd effectively be creating a new instance every time, rather than just summoning the instance already running.

You can summon it with: dbus-send --session --type=method_call --dest='org.gnome.Do' '/org/gnome/Do/Controller' 'org.gnome.Do.Controller.Summon'

(from https://answers.launchpad.net/do/+question/23703)

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Pimple (ferociouscookiemonster) said : 		#5

It works nicely when I launch it with that command, but then it doesn't seem to open gnome-do if it isn't already running? Can I start an instance of the program without it popping up somehow?

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Best Jymbob (james-scholes) said : 		#6

Yes. run "gnome-do --quiet" to start without displaying the popup.

To summarise: a session should only be told to launch gnome-do once with the command "gnome-do --quiet", which sets it running in the background. A good place to run this is at login by adding it to the session startup script (e.g. with Session Manager in GNOME)
It can then be summoned either with the keyboard shortcut <meta>Space (which, AAUI, uses a hook into Tomboy) or with the following command:

dbus-send --session --type=method_call --dest='org.gnome.Do' '/org/gnome/Do/Controller' 'org.gnome.Do.Controller.Summon'

...which can be mapped to anything you like e.g. metacity global shortcuts, compiz global shortcuts.

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Pimple (ferociouscookiemonster) said : 		#7

Thanks a lot! :)

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Pimple (ferociouscookiemonster) said : 		#8

Thanks Jymbob, that solved my question.