On Saturday 03 October 2009, Mark Kettenis wrote: >> Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:15:12 -0700 >> From: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersm...@sun.com> >> >> Jeremy Huddleston wrote: >> >> If anyone disagrees with these, or the module versions listed as being >> >> a stable, X11R7.5-compatible version that should be included in the >> >> katamari, >> >> now is the time to speak, as at the rate we're going, we should have >> >> the X11R7.5 release finished by this time next week. >> >> ... >> >> xineramaproto 1.1.2 1.2 >> >> xinput 1.3.0 * >> > >> > xinit seems to be omitted... and it could use a bump too. >> >> xinit was not on the X11R7.4 katamari modules list, but is on my list of >> modules needing a release made. I'm not sure why it was removed - >> perhaps because the expectation is most users get X11 started via a >> display manager like gdm/kdm now? Though that wouldn't apply to Cygwin >> & MacOS X users, so xinit would seem to be a core part of their window >> system. > >I still use xinit/startx to start X, and very much *do* consider it to >be an essential part of X.
+1000, Amen and hip hip hooray. I have never started X any other way, and consider it the only safe way to get a gui. Please do NOT remove that. Ever. IMO 7.5 will be broken horribly if its not included. >_______________________________________________ >xorg mailing list >xorg@lists.freedesktop.org >http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg > -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The NRA is offering FREE Associate memberships to anyone who wants them. <https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp> To the systems programmer, users and applications serve only to provide a test load. _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg