FS#42557 - [polkit-gnome] Include an autostart file.
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Opened by James (JRMoore) - Sunday, 26 October 2014, 01:13 GMT
Last edited by Balló György (City-busz) - Sunday, 26 October 2014, 23:11 GMT
Opened by James (JRMoore) - Sunday, 26 October 2014, 01:13 GMT
Last edited by Balló György (City-busz) - Sunday, 26 October 2014, 23:11 GMT
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I'm an XFCE user and I have just installed an Arch system.
After installing most things I was stuck for a while being
unable to mount external disks within Thunar until I
realized that this PolicyKit agent doesn't autostart.
There's a desktop entry provided with it that supposedly only shows up in GNOME, is it supposed to be the autostart file? What is the purpose of that file? I'd like to request an autostart file to be added, it would be similar to the current desktop file provided in the package although it would be in /etc/xdg/autostart. I have added an example on how its contents could be (adapted from here: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/gnome/polkit-gnome.html). 
polkit-gnome-authentication-a...
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Closed by Balló György (City-busz)
Sunday, 26 October 2014, 23:11 GMT
Reason for closing: Won't implement
Sunday, 26 October 2014, 23:11 GMT
Reason for closing: Won't implement
https://git.gnome.org/browse/PolicyKit-gnome/commit/?id=47ca445decf21b8de13d804b870d6ce171bad306
I don't want to add an autostart file to this package, because it vary on the actual desktop environment. Most desktop environments have their own polkit authentication agent, but Xfce has no one. You have multiple choices as described here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Polkit#Authentication_agents
But you can request the maintainer of Xfce to add a dependency and an autostart file for a polkit authentication agent in the xfce4-session package. E.g. Fedora uses polkit-gnome in Xfce:
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/xfce4-session.git/tree/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1.desktop
How is GNOME handling it? I don't see any dependence on this package save cinnamon.
I'll enter a feature request for xfce4-session to open a debate about it and see if it would be appropriate or not, to me it makes sense but there may be other things into consideration.