On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:59:03AM +0200, pdormeau@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
--
David Purton
dcpurton@marshwiggle.net
For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to
strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him.
2 Chronicles 16:9a
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature