[SOLVED] ck-launch-session dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session xfce4-session

[Mike Massonnet]

2010/9/8 Enrico Tröger <enrico at xfce.org>:
> On Tue, 7 Sep 2010 21:21:01 +0200, Mike wrote:
>
>>Hi Folk,
>>
>>I did some digging on forums and found *the* answer[1] after one hour
>>of search (the album I was listening to is now over, sigh). Adding
>>ck-launch-session inside xinitrc is okish, but it is missing simply
>>dbus-launch. For the ones not having this problem, calling startxfce4
>>with ck-l-s revived the shutdown/reboot buttons from the logout dialog
>>(this change has been committed in xfce-utils:master already) but I
>>and some of you were still unable to mount/unmount with
>>gvfs-mount/Thunar.
>>
>>This actually never occurs if you login through GDM, however I don't
>>want to figure the why and how now :) The solution is simple, within
>>$prefix/etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc the command to execute xfce4-session has
>>to be changed from this:
>>
>>  ck-launch-session xfce4-session
>>
>>to this:
>>
>>  ck-launch-session dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session
>> xfce4-session
>>
>>A patch for xfce-utils is attached on bug 6690[2].
>
> I love you Mike :).
> Thank you so much for spending time and efforts on this, YMMD.
> With the above change it works like a charm.
>
> I guess for production use, the patch could be optimised to adjust the
> dbus-launch check starting at line 105 so that it checks for
> dbus-launch but don't start it already, only remembers the result and
> then insert it into the ck-l-s command below.
> If I find time, I might add a patch for this.

To my surprise there are two bugs regarding this on bugzilla. They
suggest to 1) remove the ck-l-s command 2) patch xfce4-session to
check for an existing ck proxy otherwise spawn one. Well I'm not sure
exactly, the bugs are here:

http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6684
http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6685

> Regards,
> Enrico



-- 
Mike