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Title: Desktop profile switching USE default to elogind |
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Author: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@g.o> |
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Content-Type: text/plain |
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Posted: 2019-10-31 |
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Revision: 1 |
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News-Item-Format: 1.0 |
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Display-If-Installed: sys-auth/consolekit |
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Display-If-Profile: default/linux/alpha/17.0/desktop |
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Display-If-Profile: default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop |
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Display-If-Profile: default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop/plasma |
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Display-If-Profile: default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop |
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Display-If-Profile: default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop/plasma |
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Display-If-Profile: default/linux/arm/17.0/armv4/desktop |
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Display-If-Profile: default/linux/arm/17.0/armv4/desktop/plasma |
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Display-If-Profile: default/linux/arm/17.0/armv4t/desktop |
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Display-If-Profile: default/linux/arm/17.0/armv4t/desktop/plasma |
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Display-If-Profile: default/linux/arm/17.0/armv5te/desktop |
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Display-If-Profile: default/linux/arm/17.0/armv5te/desktop/plasma |
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Display-If-Profile: default/linux/arm/17.0/armv6j/desktop |
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Display-If-Profile: default/linux/arm/17.0/armv6j/desktop/plasma |
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Display-If-Profile: default/linux/arm/17.0/armv7a/desktop |
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Display-If-Profile: default/linux/arm/17.0/armv7a/desktop/plasma |
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Display-If-Profile: default/linux/arm/17.0/desktop |
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Display-If-Profile: default/linux/arm/17.0/desktop/plasma |
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Display-If-Profile: default/linux/arm64/17.0/desktop |
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Display-If-Profile: default/linux/arm64/17.0/desktop/plasma |
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Display-If-Profile: default/linux/hppa/17.0/desktop |
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Display-If-Profile: default/linux/ia64/17.0/desktop |
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Display-If-Profile: default/linux/m68k/17.0/desktop |
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Display-If-Profile: default/linux/powerpc/ppc32/17.0/desktop |
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Display-If-Profile: default/linux/powerpc/ppc64/17.0/32bit-userland/desktop |
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Display-If-Profile: default/linux/powerpc/ppc64/17.0/64bit-userland/desktop |
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Display-If-Profile: default/linux/sh/17.0/desktop |
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Display-If-Profile: default/linux/sparc/17.0/64ul/desktop |
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Display-If-Profile: default/linux/sparc/17.0/desktop |
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Display-If-Profile: default/linux/x86/17.0/desktop |
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Display-If-Profile: default/linux/x86/17.0/desktop/plasma |
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ConsoleKit2 is unmaintained upstream for almost two years [1]. There are many |
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longstanding bugs and papercuts with consumers that aren't being fixed, not |
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least because these code paths receive very little testing. |
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Enter the elogind project [2], which is a standalone logind implementation |
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based on systemd code, currently maintained by a fellow Gentoo user. We have |
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had sys-auth/elogind available in Gentoo since the beginning of 2017, and |
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meanwhile it has gained support [3] in KDE Plasma, Gnome [4], Cinnamon, MATE |
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and Xfce, as well as most other former consolekit consumers. |
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Consequently, the desktop profile is switching away from consolekit to elogind. |
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Users of sys-auth/consolekit who selected a different profile should consider |
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doing the same. A guide is available [5]. Migration is easy, but if run from |
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within a consolekit session that session may become broken. |
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Rely either on the profile, or set USE="elogind -consolekit" in make.conf |
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yourself. Make sure there is no consolekit debris in /etc/portage/package.use: |
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# grep -R consolekit /etc/portage/package.use |
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Rebuild all affected consumers and remove sys-auth/consolekit: |
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# emerge --ask --changed-use --deep world |
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# emerge --unmerge consolekit |
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Optional, but recommended in case of trouble such as missing reboot/shutdown |
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capabilities in the DM: |
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# rc-update add elogind boot |
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For users of startx instead of one of the supported DMs, do not forget to |
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update ~/.xinitrc accordingly (ck-launch-session is gone without replacement). |
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PS: Subsequently, this will lead to the last-riting of sys-power/pm-utils [6] |
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which is dead even longer than the original ConsoleKit(1) project. KDE Plasma |
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users sticking with sys-auth/consolekit are then going to lose suspend from |
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GUI without superuser rights. |
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[1] https://github.com/ConsoleKit2/ConsoleKit2 |
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[2] https://github.com/elogind/elogind |
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[3] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=elogind-support |
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[4] https://blogs.gentoo.org/leio/2019/03/26/gnome-3-30/ |
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[5] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Elogind |
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[6] https://bugs.gentoo.org/659616 |
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