Anyway, I removed all the consolekit stuff because my goal is to check that seatd works with xlibre.

Assuming you also installed libseat1, have you tried to add your user to the video group? Something like seatd -g video as a superuser to fix that. I recall doing that to make Seatd work properly with X11. I have little to no issues with it. According to ps_mem.py, both ck-launch-session and seatd are in the running processes with a graphical session.

Oh, libconsolekit1 was missing. When I add that, all the power buttons are greyed out except 'log out' which I guess is an improvement. They were not greyed out before and they did not work.

Adding 'startxfce4 --with-ck-launch' to ~/.xinitrc didn't change anything. I still get the same permission error.

Running 'ck-launch-session startxfce4' also gives the same error.

Moving ~/.xinitrc to ~/.config/xfce4 gave me the same error if I used 'xinit' to start X, and if I used 'startx' it starts X up to the point of giving me a black screen. At that point, the output of 'ps aux' shows more than I have console lines of .xinitrc being run. If I put an ampersand at the end of the one line in that file, it gives me a black screen for a fraction of a second and then returns the prompt. No spamming of ps with that.

Does consolekit have its own user shutdown commands?
Do you have the old dbus-send commands for shutdown? I probably do, but I'll have to look around.

With startxfce4 I get the following.

Fatal server error:
parse_vt_settings: Cannot open /dev/tty0 (Permission denied), maybe missing '-seat seat0 -keeptty' parameters? (in case trying to run uid !=0 mode)

I think I need to consult a higher authority.

@rations: I never heard of jgmenu, thanks. It looks interesting. I could see using that in my netbook where I'm using polybar (panel) that doesn't have an apps menu.

Log Out,jwm -exit,system-log-out
Shutdown,sh -c "loginctl poweroff",system-shutdown
Restart JWM,sh -c "jwm -restart",reload

This is using elogind but it might work with a different command.

If you add --with-ck-launch, ConsoleKit2 will be provisioning your X11 session.

The lxqt media manager isn't working, but I can mount/unmount with spacefm and pmount.
In xfce, thunar doesn't see the usb until it's mounted. Spacefm will mount/unmount.

For ~/bin/xfce4-logout:

#!/bin/bash

yad --window-icon=system-log-out --image="system-log-out" \
  --title "Log Out" \
  --text "What would you like to do?" \
  --button="_Lock:0" \
  --button="Log _Out:1" \
  --button="S_uspend:2" \
  --button="_Reboot:3" \
  --button="_Shut Down:4" \

ret=$?

[[ $ret -eq 4 ]] && gksu poweroff
[[ $ret -eq 3 ]] && gksu reboot
[[ $ret -eq 2 ]] && xflock4 && gksu pm-suspend
[[ $ret -eq 1 ]] && killall Xorg
[[ $ret -eq 0 ]] && xflock4

For the fake /usr/local/bin/gksu:

#!/bin/sh
set -e

if [ $(id -un) = root ] ; then
    exec "$@"
fi

if [ "$SUDO_ASKPASS" = "$0" ] ; then
    exec yad --entry --title="PASSWORD" --entry-label="$*" --hide-text
fi

exec env SUDO_ASKPASS="$0" sudo -A "$@"

As far as drive mounting goes, no issues with Udevil's Devmon running in the background. I removed Udisks2 entirely.

So then I tried installing consolekit and libpam-ck-connector. It removed a bunch of libraries and also gvfs. But it didn't remove any xfce packages. Desktop still works, shutdown/reboot still greyed out.

I don't want to hijack greenjeans' thread, so I'll try to stay relevant. I made a similar iso that has xorg, and shutdown/reboot from the menu don't work there, either. So it's not an xlibre problem. Might be seatd or polkitd related.

Edit: Adding elogind and libpam-elogind fixes the shutdown problem.

https://get.refracta.org/files/experime … 4_1517.iso

Devuan Freia (Testing) respin with xlibre, minimal lxqt, seatd (no elogind), no display manager.

Login:Password
user:user
root:root

Use startx to get the desktop.
Right-click on the desktop to get the openbox menu for exit/shutdown/reboot or use 'sudo reboot' or similar.
Read the README. It's short.