[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#727708: Xfce & logind

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

On 15/01/14 22:17, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> Now, as far as I understand it, PolicyKit/ConsoleKit are unmaintained,
> and the recommended alternative is to use logind. That means in the
> future, it's likely that upstream Xfce will have to move away from
> consolekit. That's not something they really like, considering the
> support was added not so long ago, but there's not much choice, unless
> someone wants to maintain consolekit in the long run. And it seems that
> the only choice right now is to go with logind.
> 
> No patch have already been merged for that, but there are patches for
> various components (xfce4-power-manager and xfce4-session mostly, since
> for Thunar it's actually done in gvfs and/or udisks, so we won't have a
> choice anyway). 

Maybe I've misunderstood what you mean there, but xfce4-session had logind
support merged[1] a while ago, though consolekit support is still there and you
can choose to build one or the other.

Cheers,
Emilio

[1]
http://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-session/commit/?id=ae28aef315a7a6b90f1649ce6d1f30b842791cbf