On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 09:39:14 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > # restart hald if it was running before > pid=$(get_pid org.freedesktop.Hal) > if [ -n "$pid" ]; then > kill $pid 2>/dev/null || true > lshal >/dev/null || true # will trigger through D-Bus activation > fi > > The last step (triggering a hald start via D-Bus activation). > It was initially added for applications which used a buggy approach to check > if > hald was running and disabled themselves otherwise, i.e. they didn't trigger a > D-Bus activation request. > All affected packages I know of have been fixed. > Does this mean for example that if X is running, and I kill hal, it will be restarted automatically so it can tell the already running X server about possible new input devices?
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