On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 07:32:11PM +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > Deprecated doesn't mean it doesn't exist or work anymore at all, it > means it isn't supported anymore and should not be used. > Look it up, it [startx] was deprecated for quite some time.
Quoting from https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html ========================================================================== * Only the gdm3 display manager supports running X as a non-privileged user in stretch. Other display managers will always run X as root. Alternatively, you can also start X manually as a non-root user on a virtual terminal via startx. When run as a regular user, the Xorg log will be available from ~/.local/share/xorg/. ========================================================================== Looks supported to me.
