Debian Jessie systemd autologin xfce4 polkit permission fix

Recently things have changed in regard to policies and the way one logs in.

If your one of the few, like me, who doesn’t use a *dm for login and has suffered the polkit hassle of no suspend/hibernate or shutdown/reboot with Xfce4, there is a simple fix.

Parse a ‘– vt1’ to startx. In your .bashrc or .bash_profile, use the line,

[[ -z $DISPLAY && $XDG_VTNR -eq 1 ]] && exec startx -- vt1

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