Re: [Sawfish] policy kit problem

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On 10/19/12, Mihai T. Lazarescu <mtlagm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 04:41:19PM +0200, Stefan Husmann 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?
>>
>> Btw. on Arch Linux policykit is deprecated in favour of
>> polkit.  I do not know the situation in fedora.
>
> I use XFCE with sawfish on F17 and see that this process
> is running:
>
>     /usr/libexec/polkit-1/polkitd --no-debug

Yes, that's running for me as well :)
I guess for you xfce starts it and for me gnome-settings-daemon does.

Cheers,
Daniel


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