Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Suspend and Hibernation not working on XFace desktop [SOLVED]

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

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On Friday, 17 January 2020 11:18:22 GMT Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:
> 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

Glad you got this going and thanks for posting back in case others come across 
the same problem.

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Regards,

Mick

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