Re: Debian Testing Xfce4.8 startx problems

[Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com>]

On 2011-09-21, rypervenche <sub@ryper.org> wrote:
> I am having trouble getting Xfce to work with startx. I have followed
> the instructions in the doc files for xfce4 and xfce4-session, but I am
> still unable to mount drives, start mylogin keyring, and shutdown via
> the GUI (shutdown and restart are grayed out). I even tried adding the
> proper command to visudo, but no success.

(...)

The problem is that while GDM and KDM set up consolekit correctly, using
startx does not. It was discussed recently on this list:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/08/msg01564.html

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Liam O'Toole
Cork, Ireland