[Mageia-dev] Deprecating startx

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Thomas Backlund at 07/03/12 19:41 did gyre and gimble:
> 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...

Exactly.

multi-user.target (aka runlevel 3) is still needed for servers. There is
no problem in using this mode.

graphical.target (aka runlevel 5) is for users who want a graphical
system, again there is no problem with this mode and it is meant to run
a graphical login agent.

The actual use case of using a text login and then starting X is quite
small. Of course some people (like Wobo) do use this but it's definitely
the exception rather than the rule.

That's why it's not too much of a problem overall IMO. And like I say,
this is something other distros have already done (OpenSUSE, Fedora).

Col



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