On Tue, 18 Jun 2019, Felix Miata wrote:
The gods of security have decreed that instead of startx you must use a display manager to login and start your X session.
This statement had such a clear veridical ring to it I realized it would be foolish to submit myself, all of you, and the cat, to any further nonsense, so "apt-get install xdm" and bingo here we are.
I have no idea what they've done to xhost but they've clearly taken that also out of our work-tarnished prole hands.
Thanks all! -- These are not the droids you are looking for.
