Re: sid upgrade removes XFCE desktop

[Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net>]

On 7/16/13, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 12:41 +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
>> I usually use startx, and after my upgrade (from sid 12th July) now
>> gnome classic and xfce sessions from lightdm, and startx from command
>> line, all start up gnome classic.
>>
>> Now my laptop cpu fan fires up 2 or 3 times a minute, my external
>> screen is below res and my usual desktop panels etc are gone etc etc.
>>
>> Anyway, I want to run xfce, and am impressed the upgrade got one past me
>> :)
>
> http://wiki.debian.org/Xinitrc
>
> exec startxfce4

Thanks.

Is there any advantage to prefixing startxfce4 with exec?