[arch-general] Polkit and systemd

[Manolo Martínez]

On 08/15/12 at 12:25am, John K Pate wrote:
> 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.
> 

Yes, that's a nice workaround. Thanks John and Tom.

Manolo