On Tue 17 Oct 2017 at 13:56:37 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 06:42:04PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Tue 17 Oct 2017 at 11:38:40 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > On Tue 17 Oct 2017 at 19:32:11 (+0500), Alexan:der 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 was deprecated for quite some time. > > > https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=8737 > > So it's deprecated in Mageia GNU/Linux? OK. If I were a Mageia user (or > had ever heard of it before today) that might carry some weight with me. > > Just curious, what are Mageia users expected to use instead of startx if > they want to start a traditional X session from a console? Or is that > no longer a supported configuration at all? (By traditional, I mean > a ~/.xsession or ~/.xinitrc file that contains "exec twm" or whatever > window manager you prefer.) > > Did they simply throw every window manager under the bus and say "Nope, > sorry, you gotta run a desktop environment now"?
That is possible, but I'm not going to invest the time in finding out. The purpose of my post was to point out Alexan:der V. Makartsev's use of a post from elsewhere without acknowledgement and indicate Debian's attitude towards startx (without going into detail). I use startx. My users get xdm because they have poor memories for the names of commands and like pretty pictures. -- Brian.
