On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:59:03AM +0200, pdorm...@free.fr wrote: > > I've googled a plenty and tried different things without success. Any > > suggestions? Surely I'm not the only person running debian who doesn't > > use a desktop manager? > > I do not pretend to know the correct way to do this, > at least I can share my experience. This works here for > starting an X session with startx or with xdm: > > 1 - I installed libpam-ck-connector > I do not remember if it is necessary, but > I removed the nox11 option in /etc/pam.d/common-session > file (probably for xdm, may not be necessary for startx). > > Installing libpam-ck-connector is necessary because startx > has no consolekit support. > > 2 - I modified /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90-consolekit such as > to unconditionnally start ck-launch, like this: > > -if [ -z "$GDMSESSION" ] && [ -x "$CK_LAUNCH_SESSION" ] && \ > - ( [ -z "$XDG_SESSION_COOKIE" ] || is_on_console ) ; then > +if [ -z "$GDMSESSION" ] && [ -x "$CK_LAUNCH_SESSION" ] ; then > STARTUP="$CK_LAUNCH_SESSION $STARTUP" > fi > > I do not know why test fails here with xdm or with startx. > > 3 - For i386 (I do not need this for amd64), I had the > following line in /etc/pam.d/common-session: > > session optional pam_loginuid.so > > before > session optional pam_ck_connector.so > > If I do not do this on i386, ck-list-session reports that > the session has no login-session-id, then it cannot be active. >
Ha! Nice instructions. I'd tried similar combinations, but I think I
hadn't been successful. I might try this again because it isn't too
invasive.
David
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