[Mageia-dev] Deprecating startx

Thu Mar 8 15:03:42 CET 2012

'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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