On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org> wrote: > > I would guess your session is not marked as active > ck-list-sessions will tell you that. > > That is a problem of starting your X session via startx. > > My suggestion would be to use a display manager like gdm3 or lightdm.
Using a DM probably makes things simpler/smoother but using Debian's default X setup results in: (from ps) /usr/bin/ck-launch-session /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session x-window-manager and (from ck-list-sessions) Session1: unix-user = '0' realname = 'root' seat = 'Seat1' session-type = '' active = FALSE x11-display = '' x11-display-device = '' display-device = '/dev/tty1' remote-host-name = '' is-local = TRUE on-since = '2013-03-31T23:08:23.830488Z' login-session-id = '4294967295' idle-since-hint = '2013-03-31T23:09:33.195468Z' Session2: unix-user = '0' realname = 'root' seat = 'Seat1' session-type = '' active = TRUE x11-display = ':0' x11-display-device = '/dev/tty7' display-device = '/dev/tty1' remote-host-name = '' is-local = TRUE on-since = '2013-03-31T23:09:05.930568Z' login-session-id = '4294967295' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=Sx_j2VC0=hg9qyzcdiyf8dtescqgozpja7we01k1t2...@mail.gmail.com