[Mageia-dev] ANN: X11 now starts on tty1

[Wolfgang Bornath]

2011/12/17 Maarten Vanraes <alien at rmail.be>:
> Op zaterdag 17 december 2011 10:52:52 schreef Florian Hubold:
>> Am 17.12.2011 02:26, schrieb Maarten Vanraes:
>> > Op zaterdag 17 december 2011 02:03:55 schreef Colin Guthrie:
>> >> 'Twas brillig, and Maarten Vanraes at 17/12/11 00:50 did gyre and gimble:
>> >>> how does this relate to multiple sessions? if it starts at tty1 and
>> >>> next session starts at tty2 and so forth, were are the textbased tty's
>> >>> then?
>> >>
>> >> 2nd session starts on tty7 (i.e. the next available tty). Not exactly
>> >> super intuitive I agree so open to suggestions here... i.e. one option
>> >> would be to only start txt ttys on 7 & 8 (two should be enough right?)
>> >> leaving tty 1 through 6 for graphical logins.
>> >
>> > if could be nice if they were "on-demand" ?
>>
>> Couldn't they be socket-activated which is one of the killer features
>> of systemd? Like with cups after Lennarts patches, which now only
>> starts on-demand?
> [...]
>
> that would be nice, but what if you do a rapid ctrl+alt+F2-F8, all your stuff
> will be tty, nothing left for sessions?

That's one matter, the other one will be teaching all users who were
used to the current scheme, many of them using it for many years.
Especially if we do not announce it with big fat red letters! Still
there will be the fast C-ALT-F1-6 just from automatic procedure,
people will be more annoyed by that than by a little flickering for a
second during system start.

I really beg to think the whole matter over again, at least until it
is mature enough to be implemented in cauldron for practical test.

-- 
wobo