On 10/19/12, Stefan Husmann <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 18.10.2012 23:57, schrieb Daniel Fetchinson: >> After a recent upgrade to fedora 17 I'm having all sorts of permission >> problems (nm-applet can't connect, webcam doesn't work only for root, >> there is no audio, etc, etc) and after googling around I think I found >> the reason: I'm not using a graphical login screen but boot into text >> mode, enter my login/passwd in text, then do a 'startx'. In my >> .Xclients I have all sorts of stuff ending with 'exec sawfish'. >> >> Now it seems the way I have things set up doesn't integrate with >> policy kit which results in my permission problems. So how do you guys >> use sawfish stand alone and how do you use policy kit? >> >> Cheers, >> Daniel >> >> > Hello, > > this i nor a fedora mailing list nether a policykit one. > > Try to start X with > > startx -- vt0 > > See > http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/50622/using-startx-on-fedora-17-a-non-root-user-cannot-join-new-wireless-networks
Thanks, this is quite helpful! > Btw. on Arch Linux policykit is deprecated in favour of polkit. I do not > know the situation in fedora. Yes, by policykit I meant polkit. Cheers, Daniel -- Psss, psss, put it down! - http://www.cafepress.com/putitdown -- Sawfish ML
