Error: DBus could not be found and is required by Docky. Exiting.

[q b]

Hello.
I like docky but when I try to run it like this:
sudo docky
I get an error
"DBus could not be found and is required by Docky. Exiting."
But DBus is running.
Somehow I can launch docky with the following command:
dbus-launch docky
but this is not a solution I'm looking for. Please, help me. I found
no solution that could solve the problem.

[Robert Dyer]

On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 10:12 AM, q b <anonch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello.
> I like docky but when I try to run it like this:
> sudo docky

First off, why would you run Docky as root? That is a *bad* idea in general.

> I get an error
> "DBus could not be found and is required by Docky. Exiting."
> But DBus is running.
> Somehow I can launch docky with the following command:
> dbus-launch docky

Second, did you try just running 'docky'?

> but this is not a solution I'm looking for. Please, help me. I found
> no solution that could solve the problem.

The general problem you ran into is that you are running Docky as
another user, which does not have a dbus daemon running *for that
user*. If you seriously want to run Docky as root, you need to run
dbus as root too (again, probably a bad idea).

[q b]

> First off, why would you run Docky as root?  That is a *bad* idea in general.

> Second, did you try just running 'docky'?

Yes, sure I did. It just doesn't start. So that's why I tried to start it as root to see if there is an error.

> you need to run dbus

I'd like to. When I do 

dbus-launch docky

it starts as usual, but I'd like it to start automatically, not by hand.