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