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gnome-system-tools package

  1. Bug #231246
  2. Comment #29

Comment 29 for bug 231246

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James Westby (james-w) wrote : Re: [Bug 231246] Re: 'Unlock' button in admin utilities greyed out

On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 16:53 +0000, irotas wrote:
> Yeah if I run 'sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start' from the console, everything
> works OK with PolicyKit/ConsoleKit.
>
> Now I'm trying to remember how I disabled gdm in the first place so I
> can have it start up automatically when I boot up the computer.
>
> Alternatively, maybe there's a way to do it with .xinitrc?

Hi,

You may want to use the "ck-launch-session" command to start a
consolekit session in your .xinitrc. At a guess

  exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch --exit-with-session gnome-session

may do what you want.

Otherwise working out how you disabled gdm may be easier.

Thanks,

James