[Mageia-dev] Deprecating startx

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Pierre Jarillon at 08/03/12 13:58 did gyre and gimble:
> Le jeudi 8 mars 2012 03:08:03, Colin Guthrie a écrit :
>> This is why I give far less credence to "old habits" and "how it's been
>> done in the past" and much more to "what would my mum expect" or "what
>> would a novice computer user expect".
> 
> I understand why you want to remove startx and I agree. But a lot of people 
> dont't read this mailing list.
> My suggestion is to put in /usr/bin/startx
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> echo "startx is deprecated, use instead kdm or gdm or lxdm...."
> echo "More informations on http://......"
> 
> Then old linux users will be not not lost... for Mageia.

Yup, that's exactly what I was proposing to do until such times as there
is a replacement that can act like a real session manager.

Col



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