On Sat, 24 Feb 2024 23:23:28 -0800 Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 2/24/24 23:17, Francis.Montagnac@xxxxxxxx wrote: >>> It does have something to do with running from systemd, but I have no >>> idea what it is. >> Not sure at all of that. It seems to be instead an compatibility between >> vncsession and startxfce4. > It's directly related to running from systemd while the user is already > logged in. If the user isn't logged in, it works fine from systemd. Right: I did my test being not logged in (at the console). It fails also with xfcetest, thus the startxfce4 script is not the culprit. xfce failed for me yesterday with a different message in the log: Starting desktop session xfce Unrecognized option: -xsession use: X [:<display>] [option] but today it works (while being not logged in). > If the user is logged in and you start it from the command line, it also > works. Right, from a terminal of the main session with: sudo /usr/libexec/vncsession-start :1 > So it's only the combination. I did run a strace, but it's not > clear what's going on. It almost seems like it's something to do with > the ssh agent, but I wasn't motivated enough to really follow it. Being logged in with fluxbox and starting a fluxbox VNC session works also. -- francis -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue