Changeset ce889d2 for gnome

Timestamp:

02/18/2012 02:51:36 PM (12 years ago)

Author:

Ken Moffat <ken@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 7.10, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.6-blfs, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, gnome, kde5-13430, kde5-14269, kde5-14686, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, krejzi/svn, lazarus, lxqt, nosym, perl-modules, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, systemd-11177, systemd-13485, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

bd5c017

Parents:

ce6a89f

Message:

Improve gnome-session details: the logout function on the commandline does work, and I tracked down what turned out to be a problem on every first attempt (after booting) to run gnome-session.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@9461 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

File:

• gnome/core/gnome-session.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

gnome/core/gnome-session.xml

@@ -126 +126 @@
       the 'Utilities' - particularly <application>GNOME Terminal</application>
       (<application>xterm</application> does not  install a '.desktop' file and
-      so not appear in the menus). You may have to use
-      <literal>Ctrl-Alt-Backspace</literal> to end the desktop session.</para>
+      so not appear in the menus).</para>
 
       <para>When <command>gnome-session</command> is run, it invokes the necessary
       daemons and either <application>Metacity</application> or
       <application>gnome-shell</application> - the latter will in turn invoke
-      <application>Mutter</application>.</para>
+      <application>Mutter</application>. A desktop manager such as
+      <application>gdm</application> will invoke <application>ConsoleKit</application>
+      before the window manager, but if you use <command>startx</command> the first
+      invocation after booting may fail because the daemon is not already running,
+      so we will invoke it first.</para>
 
       <para>To automatically start the <application>gnome-session</application>
@@ -146 +149 @@
 
 <screen><userinput>cat &gt;&gt; ~/.xinitrc &lt;&lt; "EOF"
-<literal>exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session gnome-session</literal>
+<literal>exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch --exit-with-session gnome-session</literal>
 EOF</userinput></screen>