Re: Starting programs in X

[Mike Dresser <mdresser_l@windsormachine.com>]

On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Patrick Wiseman wrote:

> I make _no_ promises as to whether doing this will actually _install_
> startx properly, but try this: remove xbase-clients, then retrieve the
> .deb _without_ installing, and then extract startx with something like:
>
> dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile xbase-clients.*.deb | tar xvf - /
>  ./usr/bin/X11/startx
>

Oh, I could do that or something similar, yes.  But then the first time
xbase-clients gets updated and startx doesn't, who knows what will happen
:)

Mike