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List:       freedesktop-xorg
Subject:    Re: spaces in pathnames
From:       Glynn Clements <glynn () gclements ! plus ! com>
Date:       2008-06-30 23:30:21
Message-ID: 18537.27789.957682.79931 () cerise ! gclements ! plus ! com
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James Cloos wrote:

> Adam> More broadly, it's probably time to deprecate startx and xinit,
> Adam> strongly recommend the use of a display manager like gdm, and
> Adam> write a minimal replacement in some sensible subset of bash/ksh.
> 
> I still regularly recommend avoiding display managers and running
> startx at the vt command line.  /Everything/ works better that way.

That requires the user to be root, or the X server to be setuid root. 
It also means that both the X server and the desktop session inherit a
bunch of environment from the console session, which may not be
appropriate.

> But I would certainly not object were the sample startx written in
> something other than sh.  Is there any reason not to write it in C?

That already exists; it's called "xinit".

startx is just a front-end to xinit. That's why it's a script: so it
can be easily customised.

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Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com>
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