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Old 1st April 2009
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Haha, great site jggimi.

Personally, I use xinit(1) rather than startx(1) for local machines, it doesn't do most of the xauth security stuff that startx does, which can sometimes leave your system in an unusable state.

startx is just a quick&dirty hack wrapper around xinit.
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