[desktop-discuss] startx instead of GDM

[Stephen Hahn]

* Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM> [2007-11-04 17:36]:
> Stephen Hahn wrote:
> >* Mario Goebbels <me at tomservo.cc> [2007-11-04 13:01]:
> >>Because it's geekier and because I'd like my laptop not always to start
> >>with X, I figured I try creating a startx script. So far, it kind of 
> >>works.
> >
> >  I have one of these, too.  
> >
> >  Desktop folks:  is there a reason we don't have a /usr/bin/startx
> >  similar to Mario's?
> 
> Because we used to have /usr/openwin/bin/openwin to do the same thing,

  (I remember using this!  :) )

> and never got around to replacing it after OpenWindows went away since
> almost everyone used dtlogin (or now gdm) instead.
> 
> We'll get /usr/X11/bin/startx when we get our xinit version resynced
> with the X.Org X11R7 version.

  Ah.  Very good, thanks.  (Mario, you'll want to have a look at that
  script as a base to offer enhancements/bugs, I think.)

  - Stephen

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