On Tue, 19 Jul 2016 09:23:47 -1000
Joel Roth <joelz@???> wrote:

> emninger@??? wrote:
> > And as i said before, lxdm is nearly equally leightweight as slim
> > and as far as i see not really systemd infected - yet (?).
>
> Why do you like using a display manager rather than login
> and startx?

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).

Personally, I always boot to CLI and startx to GUI.

SteveT

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