On 2018-06-15 11:42, Felix Miata wrote:
Carlos E. R. composed on 2018-06-15 11:20 (UTC+0200):
Common, startx is deprecated since a decade perhaps. Has it uses, yes, but running a desktop and modern apps is not one of them.
AFAIK, without startx I couldn't even do multiple Xorg instances using preset exported user-specific XORGCONFIG configuration at session outset.
Yes, possibly. However, I can start a second session (different user) from XFCE menu just fine. I have not tried three in years. But AFAIK startx does not support policykit and that is a problem. There are daemons that are not started, things that fail. don says he gets this error: Unable to grab media player keys: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.Dbus.Error.ServiceUnKnown: The name org.gnome.SettingsDaemon was not provided by any .service files rhythmbox is a gnome app, and gnome relies on having a proper display manager doing certain jobs, and startx certainly doesn't do them out of the box. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.3 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)