Mick and All,
On Saturday, 2019-12-21 12:22:31 +0000, you wrote:
> ...
> A Gentoo user with consolekit and xfce should kindly check their settings and
> compare with yours to see if something is amiss. I'm thinking, any xfce
> regression bugs ought to affect more than one user at a time, so you
> shouldn't
> be alone in this.
Well, it's been a while ...
In my attempt to hunt down this bug I stumbled upon more than one omiss-
ion, glitch, misinterpretation, you name it that had crept into my init-
ial Gentoo installation. And since I had to fix these anyway, progress
on the initial problem was somewhat slow.
Eventually I found that
$ ck-list-sessions
$
just returned nothing. There wasn't any ConsoleKit session running at
all! I was using "x11-misc/sddm" as a desktop manager and something had
made it stop starting a ConsoleKit session before starting Xfce. I nev-
er found out what, but found a workaround. Before it starts Xfce "sddm"
sources "~/.xsession", if it exists. Therefore running
$ echo 'exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch --exit-with-session $@' >
~/.xsession
once and then rebooting solves the problem. Within the script sourcing
"~/.xsession" the arguments "$@" will expand to the command (including
arguments) configured to start your session ("startxfce4" in my case)
and the "exec" prefix will simply prevent this script from running "$@"
twice. However, since I also had other reservations about "sddm" I dec-
ided to replace it with "lightdm" which correcly ran out of the box (ex-
cept for configuring the background image and -- most importantly -- the
keyboard layout for entering the password). And "lightdm" does not need
"~/.xsession".
So finally a big thank you to all the kind people trying to help ... :-)
Sincerely,
Rainer
