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