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Bug#615020: xdm: ConsoleKit support



On Fri, Mar  2, 2012 at 13:42:03 -0500, Mason Loring Bliss wrote:

> Package: xdm
> Version: 1:1.1.11-1
> Followup-For: Bug #615020
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> As XDM doesn't support consolekit directly, users must take a couple
> potentially non-obvious steps to get NetworkManager and XFCE4 Power
> Manager (and likely similar systems) to run. Specifically, someone
> using XDM must remove the "nox11" directive from the consolekit line
> in /etc/pam.d/common-session and then launch their session manager
> through ck-launch-session in their .xsession file.
> 
> There is a patch for this included in bug #17325 in the FreeDesktop.org
> Bugzilla. I'm not presently familiar enough with the code to usefully
> review it.
> 
I think I did last time it came up on xorg-devel and it wasn't good
enough IIRC.  Somebody who wants this needs to do the work to get that
patch in shape.

Cheers,
Julien

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