On 08/15/12 at 12:25am, John K Pate wrote: > On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 19:13:33 -0400 > Manolo Martínez <manolo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
