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webkit2gtk package

  1. Bug #2023322
  2. Comment #70

Comment 70 for bug 2023322

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Jonathan Kamens (jik) wrote : Re: Unable to setup Google Online Accounts with Nvidia drivers

Woops, posted that prematurely by accident.

I can't use the nouveau driver because it doesn't play nicely with DisplayLink for some reason and I don't have any displays plugged into my computer directly. My workaround for adding a Google Account was therefore the following:

1. Run `kill -TERM -1` in my GNOME session to make sure all processes under my account are well and truly dead.
2. Ctrl-Alt-F3 to switch to a text virtual terminal.
3. Log in as root on the virtual terminal.
4. Run `xinit -- :1` to bring up an X server without any GNOME session or anything, with an xterm running in it.
5. In the xterm, run `xinit /usr/bin/sudo -u myusername -H gnome-session -- /usr/bin/Xephyr :2` (note that you need Xephyr installed for this to work).

That should start a GNOME session in which you can run gnome-control-center and add the Google account successfully. Then you log out of the GNOME session, exit from the xterm, and log out of the virtual terminal.