Chris Jones <jonesc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On limited hardware that could be reason alone to use startx from 3.
Does this really make a difference ? I accept it saves one login screen, but
surely once you have logged on this screen is forgotten and your preferred
session (KDE,gnome or whatever) is started.
Your argument that it helps on low end machines only makes sense to me if the
login screen is somehow 'remembered' after log on, so still using system
resources. I really doubt this is the case in which case I doubt, once you
have your desktop session running it really makes a difference whether you
went via the standard login window (init 5 if you like) or startx from init
3?
I strongly recommend the "start in run level 3" approach to anyone
having trouble getting their video setup configured. That way
ctrl-alt-backspace can kill the X session if the need arises and you
don't end up with X cycling until you reboot. I got into the habit of
starting in run level 3 when I first tried Linux with Red Hat Linux
5.0. I think my current installs to my laptop and workstation are the
first time I've ever left the graphical login in place.
Cheers,
Dave
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