On 04/12/2016 08:41 AM, Mitt Green wrote:
> Boruch Baum wrote:
>> No improvement.
>
> ‎This requires, certainly, consolekit to be installed
Check. But see below, final paragraph.

> and. xinitrc with "startxfce4 --with-ck-launch"
Hmm. I've got "exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch startxfce4". Between
your version, the man page and /etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc, you've given me a
bunch of ideas to play with, more opportunities to bang my head against
the wall. Thanks, I think.

> I don't have an opportunity to try myself, as I dumped Xfce a
> quarter ago in favour of Openbox and then dwm,
I don't blame you. I'm an i3wm user by preference, but if I'm going to
evaluate devuan, this is what I should be doing for that.

BTW, if you're coming to dwm from openbox, check this out:

    https://github.com/Boruch-Baum/morc_menu

> but the shenanigans I'm sending were sent by me earlier in the list
> and thus were tested. I didn't incorporate the use of any kind of
> display manager though, neither then, nor do now.
Yup, there is indication in the file /etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc that the
ck-launch option "is only required for starting from a console, not a
login manager". Since I'm doing this as an evaluation, I'm still using
devuan's default Slim login manager. So, more to play with. This looks
promising in that it invites a reason for the trouble: I had originally
installed devuan as cli-only, so there was no display manager installed.
When I later added the 'task' for the default desktop, which does
include a DM (doh!), the devuan config may not have performed all the
steps that the devuan installer would have. But, at this point that's a
few jumps to conclusion.

> Cheers, Mitt _______________________________________________
Regards,

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