On Tue 17 Oct 2017 at 15:30:36 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Mageia is among those installed on most of my multiboot PCs. > > Mageia's contributor base is among the more limited among top 20 distros. It > provides limited deviation from upstream. Thus, if upstream says something is > deprecated, Mageia either claims it's deprecated, or is silent on the subject. > > Startx continues to work more or less as always in Mageia, just as in Debian, > though not necessarily perfectly: > https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15662
Not "more or less" in Debian". Just rock solid, > Since KDM has been removed from both Mageia and Stretch, killing KDM features > not supported by GDM, LightDM or SDDM, I more often start X sessions in those > installations using startx than otherwise (which usually means TDM). > > One of my use cases for startx is need for simultaneously run X sessions > *initialized* with unique and/or arbitrary configurations, e.g.: > > 1920x1200@120DPI on :0 (default, via login greeter) > 1440x900@108DPI on :1 (non-default, via vtty3 login) > 1920x1200@132DPI on :2 with panning (virtual desktop) 1920x2400 > > If such is supported entirely from running Xorg, I have yet to find how. Such > settings from within any running DE don't count, due to key requirements > "initialized" and "arbitrary" that obviate starting a session, configuring via > GUI, then restarting session with the just applied (user-specific) > modifications. Am I on the wrong mailing list? -- Brian.
