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On Friday, 17 January 2020 11:18:22 GMT Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: |
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> Mick and All, |
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> |
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> On Saturday, 2019-12-21 12:22:31 +0000, you wrote: |
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> > ... |
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> > A Gentoo user with consolekit and xfce should kindly check their settings |
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> > and compare with yours to see if something is amiss. I'm thinking, any |
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> > xfce regression bugs ought to affect more than one user at a time, so you |
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> > shouldn't be alone in this. |
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> |
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> Well, it's been a while ... |
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> In my attempt to hunt down this bug I stumbled upon more than one omiss- |
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> ion, glitch, misinterpretation, you name it that had crept into my init- |
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> ial Gentoo installation. And since I had to fix these anyway, progress |
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> on the initial problem was somewhat slow. |
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> Eventually I found that |
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> $ ck-list-sessions |
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> $ |
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> just returned nothing. There wasn't any ConsoleKit session running at |
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> all! I was using "x11-misc/sddm" as a desktop manager and something had |
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> made it stop starting a ConsoleKit session before starting Xfce. I nev- |
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> er found out what, but found a workaround. Before it starts Xfce "sddm" |
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> sources "~/.xsession", if it exists. Therefore running |
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> $ echo 'exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch --exit-with-session $@' > |
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> ~/.xsession |
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> |
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> once and then rebooting solves the problem. Within the script sourcing |
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> "~/.xsession" the arguments "$@" will expand to the command (including |
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> arguments) configured to start your session ("startxfce4" in my case) |
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> and the "exec" prefix will simply prevent this script from running "$@" |
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> twice. However, since I also had other reservations about "sddm" I dec- |
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> ided to replace it with "lightdm" which correcly ran out of the box (ex- |
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> cept for configuring the background image and -- most importantly -- the |
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> keyboard layout for entering the password). And "lightdm" does not need |
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> "~/.xsession". |
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> So finally a big thank you to all the kind people trying to help ... :-) |
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> Sincerely, |
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> Rainer |
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Glad you got this going and thanks for posting back in case others come across |
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the same problem. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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