how to create notification icon without starting dbus? about yad HOT 6 CLOSED

is the behavior with dbus the same for other types of yad dialog or dbus started only for notifications?

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Behavior is the same for other types of dialog. Sorry for the misleading issue title (I almost always use yad for notification icons).

Interestingly, yad works fine if I uninstall dbus. So it's puzzling why yad consistently starts dbus if dbus is installed but not already running.

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looks like this is gsettings issue. you can try to build yad with --enable-standalone configure option, but i'm not sure that this will helpful, because gtk3 itself already uses gsettings features for file and color dialogs

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I rebuilt latest git with --enable-standalone and it made no difference.

Using this application (https://github.com/jonhoo/mktrayicon) (compiled against gtk3) to create a notification icon does not cause dbus to start, so I don't think it's a gtk3 issue.

Also, I substituted /usr/local/bin/dbus-launch with a shell script that logs PID and PPID, then launched yad. The log shows me that the parent of dbus-launch is yad, proving that at some point yad itself is calling dbus-launch for some reason.

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try to do "export NO_AT_BRIDGE=1" before running yad

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Yes, now yad runs without starting dbus. Great! Thank you.

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