ConsoleKit and xinit

Dan Nicholson dbn.lists at gmail.com
Mon Sep 10 07:35:05 PDT 2007


On 9/10/07, David Zeuthen <david at fubar.dk> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 23:01 +0200, Mark Rosenstand wrote:
> > > You need to patch xinit to add ConsoleKit support.  Here is how it was
> > > done in Fedora:
> > > http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/devel/xorg-x11-xinit/xinit-1.0.2-2-poke-ck.patch?view=markup
> > >
> > > Does it work once you do that?
> >
> > Yes. Thanks!
> >
> > Has this been submitted to xinit upstream?
>
> I just filed a bug here
>
>  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12378
>
> It probably needs some work to check for CK and conditionally use it
> only if it's available. If someone could do that it would be appreciated
> otherwise I'll look into doing it. Thanks.

I put a new patch on the bug that diffs against the current git and
adds some autotools love. It seems to build correctly here, but I
haven't tested it at runtime yet. It uses --with-consolekit
appropriately, but will just continue if it's not found.

--
Dan


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