[Mageia-dev] Deprecating startx

Thomas Backlund tmb at mageia.org
Wed Mar 7 20:41:05 CET 2012


07.03.2012 21:32, Johnny A. Solbu skrev:
> On Wednesday 07 March 2012 17:16, Colin Guthrie wrote:
>>> What should we use instead?
>>
>> A graphical login agent - i.e gdm, kdm, lxdm etc.
> 
> In other words, we should no longer use runlevel 3 as default?
> There are multiuser systems where running a graphical login agent is undesireable, for whatever reason.
> 

No. we need runlevel 3 to work too.

It's insane to expect to have to run any graphical stuff on servers /
routers / ...

But for most desktop users graphical login is wanted...

--
Thomas



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