Inconsistency between xinitrc and startxfce4 scripts

[appzer0]

Hello,

I run into a problem while logging in xfce. I usually use xdm: this is 
the default DM on my homemade distro for French native speakers, 0linux.

To log in xfce, I use the mechanism consisting in executing the xinitrc 
script, by creating the symlink /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc, pointing to the 
xfce's xinitrc located at /etc/xfce/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc.

The problem is that the login behaviour is different between this login 
method and the "startxfce4 --with-ck-launch" command invoked from the 
console. Although xdm is patched to support consolekit, only startxfce4 
script is able to to automount devices and consolekit stuff, the xinitrc 
misses something somehow.

The other problem is that the exported variables in both scripts seem 
not to be exactly the same, so when I startxfce4 I lose some useful 
variables, like the XDG* ones, leading to little annoyments like empty 
"Open with" in Xarchiver for example.

Moreover, I noticed that startxfce4 supports xinitrc (of course) by 
executing it at the end of the script, but not the contrary : xinitrc 
will never check for consolekit if we did not launch startxfce4 
--with-ck-launch! As xdm directly executes xinitrc, we miss a step.

Line 89 of Xfce's xinitrc: if test "x$XFCE4_SESSION_WITH_CK" = "x1"; then

So basically : the xdm -> xinitrc -> xfce step is missing consolekit support

Thanks to correct me if I am wrong and thanks again for a great desktop 
I'm using for many years now.


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