On Sat, 11 Jul 2020 21:56:30 +0100 Aaron Sloman <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Is there any shared wisdom about which is preferable (start in level 3 or > level 5) -- e.g. does one option have some desirable consequence not > available in the other? > Not sure if this is the appropriate list for these kind of things, but anyways: Runlevels 2, 3, 4 and 5 vary from distribution to distribution. Typically, the highest runlevel used by a distribution activates the display manager for GUI login and the other services that go along with it, I.E. the machine is ready to start a modern day desktop environment. What this means exactly for Fedora, I'm not sure. Perhaps in runlevel 3, other nifty things like auto-mounting of USB storage won't be available. As far as CTWM is concerned, as long as you've got an X server, it should work as intended. As for the extra gadgets in your Firefox, that may have to do with client-side decorations added in by Fedora, depending on the version. AFAIK their repo maintainers patched in support for that at some point. I'm not sure what happened to that feature officially - the Firefox developers are not reliable with this sort of stuff and settings and UI features that are available in one version might just dissapear in the next without further notice. I assume Firefox behaves differently because it notices that some flag or service associated to a desktop environment isn't available and adds in those decorations because it doesn't know if the current WM will supply them (client side decorations are all a bit silly, if you ask me). -- Carl Svensson
