On 18/10/17 06:56, 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), Alexander 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"? Now I'm curious - assuming Mageia has deprecated startx, how does that impact using a plain window manager? It's perfectly possible to run twm or whatever when logging in to a display manager, no? I'm sure I used to do that with xdm and icewm. Richard
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