No sound, vpn problems with NM and nm-applet about cdm HOT 5 OPEN

Apparently when you use startx/xinit from a tty the X session does not get your authentication unless you give it the vt argument for the exact same tty you're on (ttyx- > -- vtx):
http://blog.falconindy.com/articles/back-to-basics-with-x-and-systemd.html

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Thanks for looking into this @Calrama. I'm having the same issue running CDM on Arch. Were you able to solve this? If so, can you explain how/where you passed the vt argument since xinit/startx isn't being called explicitly?

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Sadly no and as far as I can tell there's no easy solution for this, because when using systemd there's just no apparent way to carry over the authentication from a tty login at say ttyX (which cdm uses) over to a newly started X session on ttyY - unless X = Y, of course. All of this is based on information from 5 months ago, though, maybe something has changed since then and now there is some way in a new systemd version, but if so, I know nothing about it, as I made a tactical retreat back to slim.

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After reviewing this and browsing my .cdmrc again I noticed the following promises to do exactly what you described:

# Where should the first X tty be spawned?
# special value `keep' causes to run X in current tty.
xtty='7'

After changing that line to xtty='keep', my authentication issues were solved. Turns out this was already known on the Arch forum.

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Well, yeah, but that way you stay on the same tty instead of returning to the login prompt and the x session starting on tty(7+). What this does is allowing you to start the x session automatically on any (same) tty you login from. That's not what I wanted, but if it is for you, that's good.

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