Bug#720116: xinit: startx should just start a plain X, not the whole desktop-environment

[Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@scientia.net>]

Package: xinit
Version: 1.3.2-1
Severity: wishlist


Hi.

IIRC, startx always used to do just that, "start X".
But nowadays, when I "startx" I get all kinds of further stuff, i.e.
GNOME tries to fully start up (WTF?).

This behaviour is IMHO quite problematic, since in case of disaster
recovery (see e.g. bug #720115) one cannot even start a plain X
anymore, without fiddling around with the X binary itself.


Not sure whether this is actually xinit's fault, or whether some other
package (gnome-whatever) just overrides any xsession or xinit config
file to cause this behaviour... I just didn't now where to start
searching ;)


Thanks,
Chris.