What makes a CK session active?

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 16:17 -0500, William Jon McCann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Feb 4, 2008 3:54 PM, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at freebsd.org> wrote:
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> > I am trying to get the shutdown and restart buttons working on GDM 2.21,
> > but my CK session is always inactive (even when I'm logged in).  For
> > example:
> >
> > Session1:
> >         uid = '92'
> >         realname = 'GNOME Display Manager'
> >         seat = 'Seat1'
> >         session-type = 'LoginWindow'
> >         active = FALSE
> >         x11-display = ':0'
> >         x11-display-device = '/dev/ttyv8'
> >         display-device = ''
> >         remote-host-name = ''
> >         is-local = TRUE
> >         on-since = '2008-02-04T20:44:18Z'
> >
> > What makes a session active?  I have a feeling I have a bug in the
> > FreeBSD CK port, but I haven't been able to track it down yet.  Any
> > advice would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> A session is active on a local seat (in theory this is seat specific)
> if the currently active VT device matches either x11-display-device or
> display-device.
> 
> So, CK may be identifying a different VT device as active.  Send the
> daemon a USR1 to turn on debugging and try switching VTs.  You should
> see some output in syslog.

Since gdm doesn't register an entry in /etc/ttys, CK wasn't installing a
watcher on the X console.  I fixed that, and now my session is active.
Thanks for the hint.

Joe

-- 
Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team      ::      gnome at FreeBSD.org
FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
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