Eliminate Your Display Manager With Startx
1,772Display managers look cool, I get it but if all you want to do is login to you're X based linux system you really don't need them in fact you can start everything up with a single command called xinit or our case the wrapper script called startx.
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==========Time Stamps==========
0:00 Introduction
0:40 What Is Xinit
1:09 Startx
1:36 Creating Xinitrc
3:30 Exec Environment
4:53 Starting The XServer
5:25 Automating The Process
6:53 Running Multiple Enviroments
7:33 Issue With A Display Manager
8:06 Closing Thoughts
8:17 Outro
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