Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1578 mails)

[Rüdiger Meier <sweet_f_a@xxxxxx>]

On Saturday 12 November 2011 at 10:32, you wrote:
> I am curious as I have had quite protracted email discussions with a
> guy about runlevels. He insists using init 3 and startx is the only
> way to boot a system but has never put forward a sane and rational
> answer as to why. As a matter of fact, no answer at all other than
> incoherent rants against xdm/gdm/kdm.

There are several use cases for init 3/startx:

1. Don't waste resources for X while you are mostly using the machine 
from remote but only sometimes as desktop.

2. You don't want to have dangerous kdm features like user shutdown or 
switching sessions while desktop is locked. If you are to lazy to 
configure kdm then simply disable it.

3. If you don't use any feature of kdm at all why you should use it 
then? Speaking for me I don't use any kdm feature except typing my 
password whitch works even better without kdm.


cu,
Rudi
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