(TXT) My patch for Devuan ASCII's `startx' command
       restores the correct behaviour of allocating the first free tty for X.
       
       With the bundled `startx' version, Xorg is launched in the same tty
       where `startx' is invoked; which is wrong, inconvenient and messy.
       To name but one downside: once you quit X, the tty is no longer owned
       by your user, but by root.
       
       The current broken behaviour originated at RedHat as a kludge
       for systemd component logind, and has no place in a distribution devoid
       of systemd.
       
 (BIN) Download compressed patch (2124 bytes)
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 (HTM) Read about the birth of the ugly kludge at RedHat
       
 (HTM) This patch was also presented/discussed on Devuan's mailing list
       
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       "patch for Devuan ASCII's startx" is Copyright (C) 2018 Dario Niedermann
       released with no warranty under the terms of the GPLv3 license.
       Patched `startx' retains its original license.
       
                                      This page was last updated on 01-Apr-2019
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