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- Subject: Re: [Sawfish] policy kit problem
- From: Daniel Fetchinson <fetchinson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 17:09:41 +0200
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On 10/19/12, Stefan Husmann <stefan-husmann@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Am 18.10.2012 23:57, schrieb Daniel Fetchinson:
>> After a recent upgrade to fedora 17 I'm having all sorts of permission
>> problems (nm-applet can't connect, webcam doesn't work only for root,
>> there is no audio, etc, etc) and after googling around I think I found
>> the reason: I'm not using a graphical login screen but boot into text
>> mode, enter my login/passwd in text, then do a 'startx'. In my
>> .Xclients I have all sorts of stuff ending with 'exec sawfish'.
>>
>> Now it seems the way I have things set up doesn't integrate with
>> policy kit which results in my permission problems. So how do you guys
>> use sawfish stand alone and how do you use policy kit?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Daniel
>>
>>
> Hello,
>
> this i nor a fedora mailing list nether a policykit one.
>
> Try to start X with
>
> startx -- vt0
>
> See
> http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/50622/using-startx-on-fedora-17-a-non-root-user-cannot-join-new-wireless-networks
Thanks, this is quite helpful!
> Btw. on Arch Linux policykit is deprecated in favour of polkit. I do not
> know the situation in fedora.
Yes, by policykit I meant polkit.
Cheers,
Daniel
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