[Tip] prevent firefox from using gconf

[matroskin]

How to prevent firefox from using gconfd-2
Even so firefox was compiled without gnome support, it still looks for gconf
on start up and run it. It's not a big problem but annoying. I want to have minimalistic gtk2+ based system without gnome. So even if I do install gnome to try some program I still want the rest of my desktop not to use it.

Solution is to give firefox a personal, fake, nonworking gconf
Here we go.

• cd to firefox installation directory. it is ~/apps/firefox in my case
  

  Code:

  ls -dl firefox firefox-bin plugins -rwxr-xr-x  1 tolik users    6338 Апр 14 22:16 firefox -rwxr-xr-x  1 tolik users 9785208 Май 27 22:50 firefox-bin drwxr-xr-x  2 tolik users     208 Май 27 23:28 plugins

  if you see something like that you're in a right place
  
• go to plugins directory
  

  Code:

  cd plugins ls -l -rwxr-xr-x  1 tolik users 18840 Апр 14 22:16 libnullplugin.so

  
  
• prepare fake gconf
  

  Code:

  sed 's/gconfd-2/gconfd-3/g' < /usr/lib/libgconf-2.so.4 > libgconf-2.so.4 chmod 755 libgconf-2.so.4

  
  
• we're done, lets test it
  

  Code:

  killall -9 gconfd-2 firefox & ps ax | grep gconf

  
  

[anfpunk]

Yep, it worked for me.

Do I have to do this everytime I reinstall? Also, the only benefit is that it's one less process running right?

I like doing random stuff and no one else replied so I figured I'd do it. :o)

[liuspider]

cool.

I always wondered why I have a gconfd running when I logout of KDE: I do not use gnome apps.
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