'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 -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
