Bug#690127: release-notes: Issues: switch dm to get an active consolekit session

[Brian Potkin <claremont102@gmail.com>]

On Mon 28 Jan 2013 at 10:58:38 +0000, Wolodja Wentland wrote:

> In particular we need authorative advice for users of:
> 
>     1. startx
> 
>        How should startx users start their sessions? Is the aforementioned way
>        sufficient? What other changes have to be made in order to ensure a
>        correctly working system in the sense that "system services like
>        automounting and autoconfiguring network interfaces" work as expected?
>        That is: How to fix #598150 and which workaround is being referred to?

You might find

   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=658284

useful

>     2. xdm
> 
>        It sounds that xdm users should be encouraged to switch to a supported
>        display manager or asked to start their session via ~/.xsession from
>        xdm as suggested in [1]. (which also means that "nox11" has to be
>        removed IIRC)

I rather like this approach:

   http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/08/msg01653.html