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diff --git a/system/gdm/README.SLACKWARE b/system/gdm/README.SLACKWARE deleted file mode 100644 index 6233b97c99..0000000000 --- a/system/gdm/README.SLACKWARE +++ /dev/null @@ -1,32 +0,0 @@ -Since Slackware now includes polkit and consolekit, gdm will "poke" consolekit -when your session starts. This is a good thing, but since Slackware patched -the system xinitrc scripts so start kde and xfce with ck-launch-session, you -will notice that there are now *two* registered consolekit sessions (using -ck-list-sessions). You will also notice that one of them is marked as -inactive, and polkit is setup so that inactive sessions are not allowed to -do anything (there's not even an opportunity to authenticate). Therefore, -anything parented from that inactive session is not going to be able to -authenticate using polkit. - -Thankfully, there's an easy solution: edit the kde and xfce xinitrc scripts -to look like this at the relevant spots: - -In /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.xfce: - if [ -z $DESKTOP_SESSION ]; then - ck-launch-session $xfcesm - else - $xfcesm - fi - -In /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.kde: - # Start the window manager: - if [ -z $DESKTOP_SESSION ]; then - ck-launch-session startkde - else - startkde - fi - -This will cause sessions launched from gdm and kdm to *not* call -ck-launch-session when invoking the relevant desktop environment. -Pat is aware of this and will hopefully be getting fixes in /patches :-) - |