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I commonly have the problem when creating a new arch linux installation that I install xorg-xinit, expecting the startx command to depend on everything to get it to work. I have figured out at this point that xorg-server needs to be installed as well, but I really was just wondering why xorg-server is not a dependency of xorg-xinit. startx cannot function correctly without xorg-server (it gives an error that some file is not found), but is there a way to get it to work without xorg-server? What is the reason xorg-xinit doesn't depend on xorg-server, if there is one?
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Xinit/startx may be most commonly used to start a local X server - but there are many other ways it can be used. It can use an Xserver on a remote machine, launch Xvnc, launch other related X-like servers (maybe eventually wayland?).
This is covered in the xinit man page.
"UNIX is simple and coherent..." - Dennis Ritchie, "GNU's Not UNIX" - Richard Stallman
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I figured it'd be something like that. Thanks for your answer.
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