[Xfce4-commits] <xfce4-session:master> Reuse existing ConsoleKit sessions (bug #6685).

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On dim., 2010-09-19 at 13:05 +0200, Enrico Tröger wrote:
> On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:43:09 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez
> <corsac at debian.org> wrote:
> > On 08/09/2010 12:54, Enrico Tröger wrote:
> > 
> >> Now, with the change above, I can't do any of these things.
> >> xfce4-session-logout only offers Logout, reboot and halt are
> >> disabled. Also mounting my USB stick doesn't work with this change.
> >>
> > 
> >> Has anyone else similar problems or is just me?
> >>
> >> Btw, all this happens on Debian Testing.
> >>
> > I assume consolekit is installed? Is it correctly started? What does
> > 'ck-list-session' return? How *exactly* do you start xfce?
> 
> consolekit is installed.
> 
> 
> Session1:
> 	unix-user = '1000'
> 	realname = 'Enrico Tröger'
> 	seat = 'Seat1'
> 	session-type = ''
> 	active = FALSE
> 	x11-display = ''
> 	x11-display-device = ''
> 	display-device = '/dev/tty1'
> 	remote-host-name = ''
> 	is-local = TRUE
> 	on-since = '2010-09-08T10:42:41.507107Z'
> 	login-session-id = '4294967295'
> 	idle-since-hint = '2010-09-08T12:13:46.014734Z'
> 
> (this is the only listed session)
> Lately, with Nick's ck-l-s command in e/x/x/xinitrc, I got way
> more sessions and always one with "active = True" which seems
> to be a key requirement for things to work.

Yeah, I think you need an active=True session, and maybe only one
session at all.
> 
> Maybe calling ck-l-s within xfce4-session is just too late?

I don't think so, but starting CK unconditionally while there might be
another session running may lead to troubles.
> 
> 
> Since ages, I start Xfce after logging into a console with
> 'startxfce4' and except the Policykit/Consolekit mess, it
> always worked perfectly.

Which is doomed to fail, because startxfce4 has no way (and shouldn't,
anyway) to know everything to start. In Debian, we
use /etc/X11/Xsession.d for that, where the stuff you install put
scripts to be run when the session is run.
> 
> 
> > There's a README.Debian in xfce4-session which helps for that, but it
> > applies more to Xfce 4.6 so I'm not sure it'd work for 4.7.
> 
> Just to clarify: I don't use Debian packages, running it all from GIT
> master.

Ok, noted. Though the information there might still help.
> 
> 
> > The “correct” way to do it, using console is:
> > 
> > * install consolekit
> > * don't use a .xinitrc
> > * don't call startxfce4
> > * put “exec startxfce4" in .xsessionrc
> > * call startx (*only*, no arg, nothing)
> > 
> > This way, scripts in /etc/X11/Xsession.d will be executed, and
> > especially 90consolekit, which will start it for you.
> 
> Thanks.
> Done that exactly like this but it doesn't help.
> Same result: no reboot/halt/mount.

Sorry, I was wrong, it's not .xsessionrc (which is only sourced,
by /etc/X11/Xsession.d/40x11-common_xsessionrc and is useful to export
some envvar), it's .xsession:

corsac at hidalgo: cat .xsession
exec startxfce4


HTH.

Cheers,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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