Siard composed on 2018-06-16 12:06 (UTC+0200): > Now in some local list, I've heard someone maintain that starting X > with startx is very old, untested, deprecated, certainly in a systemd > environment. A display manager would control various things concerning > your login session in cooperation with systemd. > I've never heard of that. Is it true, should one refrain from using > startx nowadays?
'Tis an oft repeated song of openSUSE developers, especially on mailing lists, but see e.g.: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=974660 https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1089620#c1 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88900#c8 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83020#c1 -- "Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Whatever else you get, get wisdom." Proverbs 4:7 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/