Debian Testing Xfce4.8 startx problems

2011-09-22 Thread rypervenche
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

Re: Debian Testing Xfce4.8 startx problems

2011-09-22 Thread Scott Ferguson
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

Re: Debian Testing Xfce4.8 startx problems

2011-09-22 Thread Perry Thompson
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

Re: Debian Testing Xfce4.8 startx problems

2011-09-22 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 22/09/11 20:30, Perry Thompson wrote: 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

Re: Debian Testing Xfce4.8 startx problems

2011-09-22 Thread randall
On 09/22/2011 01:54 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: 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 thought that for 4.8 it was changed to startxfce instead of startxfce4 but i could be

Re: Debian Testing Xfce4.8 startx problems

2011-09-22 Thread Rares Aioanei
On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:35:24 +0200 randall rand...@songshu.org wrote: On 09/22/2011 01:54 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: 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 thought that

Re: Debian Testing Xfce4.8 startx problems

2011-09-22 Thread Brian
On Thu 22 Sep 2011 at 06:30:19 -0400, Perry Thompson wrote: 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. The

Re: Debian Testing Xfce4.8 startx problems

2011-09-22 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 22/09/11 22:35, randall wrote: On 09/22/2011 01:54 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: 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 thought that for 4.8 it was changed to startxfce

Re: Debian Testing Xfce4.8 startx problems

2011-09-22 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 23/09/11 00:24, Rares Aioanei wrote: On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:35:24 +0200 randall rand...@songshu.org wrote: On 09/22/2011 01:54 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: The xfce4 doc states to simple put exec startxfce4 in ~/.xsession so that consolekit and policykit will be called upon, however they

Debian Testing Xfce4.8 startx problems

2011-09-21 Thread rypervenche
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

Re: Debian Testing Xfce4.8 startx problems

2011-09-21 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 09/21/2011 04:40 PM, rypervenche wrote: I am having trouble getting Xfce to work with startx. Did you try startxfce4 instead of startx? That's how I launch XFCE when not via the display manager... -- RMA. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Debian Testing Xfce4.8 startx problems

2011-09-21 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2011-09-21, rypervenche s...@ryper.org 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

Re: Debian Testing Xfce4.8 startx problems

2011-09-21 Thread Brian
On Wed 21 Sep 2011 at 09:40:42 -0400, 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