Quoting Steve Litt ([email protected]): > I have two reasons someone (not me, but somebody) would prefer to start > up in a GUI: > > 1) Some members of my family consider it an immense challenge to have > to remember to input their username and password at the console, > recognize that they're logged in (as opposed to have fatfingered > their password and need to try again), and then type "startx". > > 2) Some people can't be trusted to type the command like this: > > startx;exit > > so that the a badguy who terminates the GUI doesn't have access to > their command prompt (although they could just access xterm within X > anyway).
Which as the legit user is _very_ easy to prevent: E.g., if disinclined to type the aforementioned, create shell script /usr/local/bin/go that does that, and use it instead after login (if you want to start X11). > Personally, I always boot to CLI and startx to GUI. 'startx' (or equivalently 'xinit <name of wm executable>' or countless other variations) really has no significant disadvantage or advantage over a display manager, per se, except tying up a VT while X11 is running - and I suppose you might be able to fix even that by backgrounding it. It's mostly just a matter of local preference. And IMO a well-customised display manager (certainly including xdm) looks neat. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
