Solution to ck-launch-session, compiz and mounting in thunar/udisks

hobarrera · 2011-04-13 11:52:44

After lots of hours trying to figure out why thunar would not mount with something like

$ cat .xinitrc
ck-launch-session dbus-launch compiz ccp &
thunar

I came up with two things:

That instance of thunar will not mount. Nor anything else that mounts through udisks
If I run thunar through a compiz hotkey instead of .xinitrc, that one DOES work
Thunar didn't mount if I ran it as dbus-launch thunar, but did show the "mountable media icons".

So I read and read and read how ck-launch-session works, and I found out the problem.

ck-launch-session passes an enviroment variable to it's child (in this case, compiz).
Thunar, and anything else executed inside .xinitrc don't get this enviroment variable, because they're not children of ck-launch-session, or compiz.

I fixed this with a dirty hack:

$ cat .xinitrc
ck-launch-session dbus-launch $HOME/.startcompiz
$ cat $HOME/.startcompiz
compiz ccp &
thunar &
etc\ \:-\)

Now everything started by xinitrc is a child of ck-launch-session, so everything consolekit-related, and udisks-related works perfectly.

Can some-one else step up, and:

Make sure this is 100% right.
Tell me if there's a less hacky way to fix this.
Tell me if I should document this on the wiki or not :-)

Hope this helps lots of people, even if it's dirty :-)

jlindgren · 2011-04-13 12:51:33

I believe you are correct, everything in the session needs to be a child of ck-launch-session in order to use ConsoleKit.

Joel · 2011-12-28 00:26:19

I'd like to post in this (maybe) old topic to say thanks to the member hobarrera, because it helped me in my debian machine about the same problem of using ck-launch-session's.
Now, I don't use any display manager, which are faster boot, use a window manager and let my script call the other apps, I'm sharing with you my codes:

#!/bin/bash

# ~/.bash_profile

if [ -z "$DISPLAY" ] && [ $(tty) == /dev/tty1 ]; then
	startx &>/dev/null
fi

#!/bin/bash

# ~/.xinitrc
# see https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=116853

exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session "$HOME/.startcompiz"

#!/bin/bash

# ~/.startcompiz

exec /usr/bin/compiz & wmpid=$!
	export GTK2_RC_FILES="$HOME/.gtkrc-2.0"
	sh "$HOME/.fehbg"
	lxpanel &
	wicd-gtk &
	xscreensaver -no-splash &
wait $wmpid

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#1 2011-04-13 11:52:44

Solution to ck-launch-session, compiz and mounting in thunar/udisks

#2 2011-04-13 12:51:33

Re: Solution to ck-launch-session, compiz and mounting in thunar/udisks

#3 2011-12-28 00:26:19

Re: Solution to ck-launch-session, compiz and mounting in thunar/udisks

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