On 22 Apr 2010, John Frankish uttered the following: > This is fixed by adding: > > "ck-launch-session" to .xsession, as in > > $ cat .xsession > .. > dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session > ck-launch-session & Which has no manpage and no support for --help (it tries to exec '--help', but doesn't emit an error when this inevitably fails). It is not mentioned in any of the (seriously limited) documentation in the console-kit source tree. The comment at the top of the source file, helpfully *below* a massive copyright boilerplate to make it easy to miss, reads 'Gate a process inside of a ConsoleKit session', which does not indicate to me that it would do a thing if you ran it on its own (though obviously if you gave it a process to run, I'd expect that process to be running inside a CK session). If you run it without parameters, it runs a shell, so running it in the background like that looks... unhelpful. Fedora, at least, doesn't use ck-launch-session: it uses ck-xinit-session, which is not in upstream console-kit at all; it's in the RH-specific xinit package. It's derived from ck-launch-session but does some incomprehensible-to-non-dbus-hackers and uncommented thrashing about with dbus first. It too appears to run a shell and then exit, so how it does what it does is equally mysterious to me. Of course, it, also, has no documentation whatsoever. I love the new Linux world. :/
