[arch-general] Polkit and systemd

[Leonid Isaev]

On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 20:49:22 -0400
Manolo Martínez <manolo at austrohungaro.com> wrote:

> 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

Except this doesn't work for rootless Xorg...

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