On 09/22/2011 04:03 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 21/09/11 22:58, rypervenche wrote: >> I am having trouble getting Xfce to work with startx. I have followed >> the instructions in the doc files for xfce4 and xfce4-session, but I am >> still unable to mount drives, start mylogin keyring, and shutdown via >> the GUI (shutdown and restart are grayed out). I even tried adding the >> proper command to visudo, but no success. >> >> Things I have tried to solve this... >> >> 1. Creating ~/.xinitrc with "startxfce4", "exec startxfce4", and >> something with ck-launch(er?) in it as well. I have tried adding >> #!/bin/bash, #!/bin/sh to the beginning and making the file executable. >> None of these have worked. >> >> 2. As per the doc file, it says not to use a .xinitrc file but a >> .xsession file, so I have tried the same things with that still with no >> success. >> >> 3. Adding my user to the list of sudoers to give myself the permissions >> to shutdown and restart, but even that does not work. >> >> I am currently using lightdm, however I would like to be able to start >> my computer straight from the command line if possible. Is it possible >> that because I am using Testing that I am missing some vital package(s) >> for this to work properly? >> >> Any and all help is appreciated. Thank you. >> >> > > I'm assuming you have xdm installed:- > $ dpkg --get-selections xdm > > If yes, what happens when you?:- > # /etc/init.d/xdm start > > Also, what Debian release are you running? > > Cheers > > No, I do not have xdm installed. I want to run my system without a DM. The xfce4 doc states to simple put "exec startxfce4" in ~/.xsession so that consolekit and policykit will be called upon, however they do not seem to be. I was hoping to be able to get this to work without having to make custom pkla files.
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