Man1 - dbus-run-session.1

dbus-run-session - start a process as a new D-Bus session

dbus-run-session [–config-file FILENAME/] [–dbus-daemon /BINARY/] [–] /PROGRAM [/ARGUMENTS/…]

dbus-run-session –help

dbus-run-session –version

dbus-run-session is used to start a session bus instance of dbus-daemon from a shell script, and start a specified program in that session. The dbus-daemon will run for as long as the program does, after which it will terminate.

One use is to run a shell with its own dbus-daemon in a text‐mode or SSH session, and have the dbus-daemon terminate automatically on leaving the sub‐shell, like this:

dbus-run-session – bash

or to replace the login shell altogether, by combining dbus-run-session with the exec builtin:

exec dbus-run-session – bash

Another use is to run regression tests and similar things in an isolated D-Bus session, to avoid either interfering with the “real” D-Bus session or relying on there already being a D-Bus session active, for instance:

dbus-run-session – make check

or (in *automake*(1)):

      AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT = export MY_DEBUG=all;
      LOG_COMPILER = dbus-run-session
      AM_LOG_FLAGS = --

–config-file=*/FILENAME/, *–config-file FILENAME

Pass –config-file=*/FILENAME/ to the bus daemon, instead of passing it the *–session argument. See *dbus-daemon*(1).

–dbus-daemon=*/BINARY/, *–dbus-daemon BINARY

Run BINARY as dbus-daemon*(1), instead of searching the *PATH in the usual way for an executable called dbus-daemon.

–help

Print usage information and exit.

–version

Print the version of dbus-run-session and exit.

dbus-run-session exits with the exit status of PROGRAM, 0 if the –help or –version options were used, 127 on an error within dbus-run-session itself, or 128+/n/ if the PROGRAM was killed by signal n.

PATH is searched to find PROGRAM, and (if the –dbus-daemon option is not used or its argument does not contain a / character) to find dbus-daemon.

The session bus address is made available to PROGRAM in the environment variable DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS.

The variables DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID, DBUS_SESSION_BUS_WINDOWID, DBUS_STARTER_BUS_TYPE and DBUS_STARTER_ADDRESS are removed from the environment, if present.

Please send bug reports to the D-Bus mailing list or bug tracker, see http://www.freedesktop.org/software/dbus/

*dbus-daemon*(1), *dbus-launch*(1)