Package: xfce4-utils Version: 4.6.0-2 Severity: wishlist
With the new consolekit/policykit method of doing things, starting an xfce4 session using startxfce4 from a text terminal will cause the user to lose hal/dbus functionality such as suspend/hibernate, mounting of removable media, access to pulseaudio devices, etc. The startx script in the xinit package, however, works fine (provided the user does not have libpam-ck-connector installed, see bug # 526006 at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=526006) since it sources /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90consolekit, which handles launching the X session using ck-launch-session as required. However, I have noticed some differences between starting xfce4 with startx vs. starting it with startxfce4, most notable of which is that the font chosen in the User Interface Preferences seems to be ignored. I assume this is the result (directly or indirectly) of the fact that startxfce4 sets assorted shell variables via /etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc that startx does not. The cleanest way around this issue that I could find is to start the X session with: startx /usr/bin/startxfce4 Until/unless startxfce4 is adapted to use ck-launch-session, perhaps this could be documented somewhere obvious? -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.iso8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages xfce4-utils depends on: ii exo-utils 0.3.100-2 Utility files for libexo ii gnome-terminal [x-terminal-e 2.24.3-3 The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl ii libc6 2.9-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libglib2.0-0 2.20.0-2 The GLib library of C routines ii libgtk2.0-0 2.14.7-5 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libxfce4util4 4.6.0-2 Utility functions library for Xfce ii libxfcegui4-4 4.6.0-2 Basic GUI C functions for Xfce4 ii libxml-parser-perl 2.36-1.1+b1 Perl module for parsing XML files ii x11-xserver-utils 7.4+2 X server utilities ii xfce4-terminal [x-terminal-e 0.2.8-5 Xfce terminal emulator ii xinit 1.1.1-1 X server initialisation tool ii xterm [x-terminal-emulator] 242-1 X terminal emulator Versions of packages xfce4-utils recommends: ii dbus-x11 1.2.12-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii thunar 1.0.0-2 File Manager for Xfce ii xdg-user-dirs 0.10-1 tool to manage well known user dir ii xfce4-panel 4.4.2-6 The Xfce4 desktop environment pane ii xfwm4 4.6.0-2 window manager of the Xfce project ii xinput 1.3.0-1 Runtime configuration and test of ii xscreensaver 5.05-3 Automatic screensaver for X Versions of packages xfce4-utils suggests: ii xfce4-session 4.4.2-6 Xfce4 Session Manager -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org