[arch-general] Polkit and systemd

[John K Pate]

On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 19:13:33 -0400
Manolo Martínez <manolo at austrohungaro.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> If I'm not wrong, systemd makes consolekit superfluous. This is what I
> thought it took for polkit to work with systemd:
> 
> * compile polkit with --enable-systemd
> * enable the systemd polkit service
> * that's it?
> 
> But that's not it. Although polkit seems to work in console, it does not
> work in X. This is not terribly surprising, because I haven't done
> anything equivalent to launching my WM under "ck-launch-session", as I
> used to do with consolekit. Is there an equivalent way of launching the
> window manager under systemd-acting-as-consolekit? 
> 
> I should explain that I'm using no display manager, and I'd like to keep
> it this way, if at all possible.

Do you start your window manager with startx? I start fluxbox that way,
and switching to:

startx -- vt01

prevents a different virtual terminal from being started, and
everything works fine.


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