How can I correctly start an XFCE session from a VT?

legolas558 · 2011-01-31 14:05:56

Hello,

let's put the removable devices problem under a different light.

I am not using any login manager, so I directly login to the 1st VT and run startx, which in turn will run (.xinitrc):

exec dbus-launch ck-launch-session xfce4-session

No removable device is ever seen and I have to manually mount every mass storage device.

Is there any way to get this working? Can somebody provide useful troubleshooting pointers?

Thanks

ChoK · 2011-01-31 14:20:25

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=111867

R00KIE · 2011-01-31 14:23:05

I have this in my .xinitrc and everything works fine.

exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session startxfce4

Also make sure you are in the storage group, I think you need to belong to that group for some things.

legolas558 · 2011-02-01 21:01:57

I am in the storage group as well, and I am using the same .xinitrc as yours but still I can't see any removable device.

I have also tried with root user but nothing is displayed. Maybe some configuration fine-tuning is necessary?

R00KIE · 2011-02-01 22:23:46

I didn't need to fine tune anything, did you read the thread ChoK mentioned?

ewaller · 2011-02-02 15:50:28

Did you check that the dbus Daemon is running?

legolas558 · 2011-02-03 10:32:21

The dbus daemon is running since boot, it is in rc.conf right after syslog-ng

I couldn't find anything useful in the other topic.

Can somebody please explain me how the whole stack works so that I can narrow down the issue?

gradgrind · 2011-02-03 14:16:50

It looks like the correct way to launch xfce4.8 (e.g. in .xinitrc) is:

exec ck-launch-session startxfce4

The 'dbus-launch' part mentioned above is not necessary as it is done in the startxfce4 script (I was having trouble, too, so I had a look at this script). And 'xfce4-session' is likely to be the wrong call because some of this start-up stuff is missing. This seems to be a change from 4.6. So the wiki is at present mostly correct (there is still one place where 'xfce4-session' is mentioned).
Of course there may well be other teething troubles in this still young software.

legolas558 · 2011-02-04 09:03:31

thank you gradgrind, I have removed dbus-launch as I have it running as a daemon.

I am now using again startxfce4 but still no solution.

Maybe all troubles are caused by wrong udev rules?

legolas558 · 2011-02-05 12:39:08

There's no point at continuing this discussion here, I have seen much unconfirmed information coming through as "true". I have started the discussion at XFCE forums, they possibly have more knowledge of the internals:

http://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?pid=20774

My raw feeling is that it won't be possible to have back this feature without gvfs or hal

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How can I correctly start an XFCE session from a VT?

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