diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2011-December/010643.html')
| -rw-r--r-- | zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2011-December/010643.html | 176 |
1 files changed, 176 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2011-December/010643.html b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2011-December/010643.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..18f50b5f7 --- /dev/null +++ b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2011-December/010643.html @@ -0,0 +1,176 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> +<HTML> + <HEAD> + <TITLE> [Mageia-dev] ANN: X11 now starts on tty1 + </TITLE> + <LINK REL="Index" HREF="index.html" > + <LINK REL="made" HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20ANN%3A%20X11%20now%20starts%20on%20tty1&In-Reply-To=%3C4EEDD6AC.2040007%40colin.guthr.ie%3E"> + <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,nofollow"> + <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> + <LINK REL="Previous" HREF="010642.html"> + <LINK REL="Next" HREF="010644.html"> + </HEAD> + <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> + <H1>[Mageia-dev] ANN: X11 now starts on tty1</H1> + <B>Colin Guthrie</B> + <A HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20ANN%3A%20X11%20now%20starts%20on%20tty1&In-Reply-To=%3C4EEDD6AC.2040007%40colin.guthr.ie%3E" + TITLE="[Mageia-dev] ANN: X11 now starts on tty1">mageia at colin.guthr.ie + </A><BR> + <I>Sun Dec 18 13:03:56 CET 2011</I> + <P><UL> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="010642.html">[Mageia-dev] ANN: X11 now starts on tty1 +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="010644.html">[Mageia-dev] ANN: X11 now starts on tty1 +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#10643">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#10643">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#10643">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#10643">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + <HR> +<!--beginarticle--> +<PRE>'Twas brillig, and Maarten Vanraes at 18/12/11 11:46 did gyre and gimble: +><i> Op zondag 18 december 2011 11:54:17 schreef Colin Guthrie: +</I>>><i> 'Twas brillig, and Anssi Hannula at 18/12/11 10:32 did gyre and gimble: +</I>>>><i> For the record, attached are three alternative [1] untested +</I>>>><i> proof-of-concept patches that make kernel start on vt7. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> Personally I'm not a fan of sticking to vt7. As I said in an earlier +</I>>><i> thread, if the primary use case of the machine is graphical, then why +</I>>><i> start at 7? It's an arbitrary choice that fitted in with other uses when +</I>>><i> it was first introduced, but these days it's pretty backwards when +</I>>><i> considered on it's own. The only reason to preserve it is out of habit +</I>>><i> and I think that this is (generally speaking) the worst possible premise +</I>>><i> to base decisions on. I mean, if we want to let people use fast user +</I>>><i> switching easily they first have to learn first about vt switch command +</I>>><i> ctrl+alt+Fn. Then they have to learn that the first login is on 7 and +</I>>><i> the subsequent ones are on 8 etc. This doesn't make sense... +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> What *should* happen is that the first one is 1.. the second one is 2 etc. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> When I'm in gnome, and I switch to tty2 for the first time, rather than +</I>>><i> getty appearing wouldn't it be better if the gdm prompt appeared for a +</I>>><i> second graphical login? +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> I'm not suggesting that we ditch text logins completely, but I'm just +</I>>><i> saying that we should try and make things generally smoother if they +</I>>><i> user has already opted for a graphical system. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> Switching to e.g. 7 or 8 should maybe default to providing a text login +</I>>><i> and gdm should maybe present a "give me a text login" option in which +</I>>><i> case that X server quits and getty replaces it. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> Anything unused should timeout and quit (e.g. a getty on tty2 unused +</I>>><i> should exit and wait and be re-activated as appropriate later. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> All these things are possible (maybe not without upstream support, but I +</I>>><i> can ask Ray about the general plans here from a gdm perspective). +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> Just for reference this is how the seat extender USB things work. Little +</I>>><i> thin clients that you plug into USB that give you a keyboard mouse and +</I>>><i> display. When you plug it in for the first time, it registers a new seat +</I>>><i> and then gives you a gdm login prompt. I don't think mutli user should +</I>>><i> be much different from multi-seat in this regard. +</I>>><i> +</I>>>><i> BTW, I know fedora uses vt1 for X, but what about other distros, e.g. +</I>>>><i> Ubuntu/Debian? +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> I don't think they default to it but plenty people try to change it to +</I>>><i> that according to Google. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> Col +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> theoretically, i'd be in favor of on-demand vt allocation, be it graphical or +</I>><i> textbased. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> i'd be ok with a session starting when going to other vt (default session, be +</I>><i> it a dm or a textbased login.) +</I> +Yup, this is generally what I'd propose. + +><i> however, the dm should allow to fall back to +</I>><i> textbased, but there we run into a problem: +</I>><i> +</I>><i> what if X is failing, you can't go back to text-login, so that's a nono +</I>><i> +</I>><i> perhaps we could document that we'd preallocate F12 or something for text- +</I>><i> based emergency, but then noone would know... +</I> +Yeah, as above, I was suggesting that e.g. 7&8 were always text logins. + +><i> I donno, if we don't have textbased by default, then surely vt1 has to be +</I>><i> forcably text-based... +</I> +><i> new X sessions are started from the old session, so i vote that CTRL+ALT+FX +</I>><i> spawns a text-based login. +</I> +They can be, but I'd vote that this should change. e.g. if you have a +setup where you "typically" have two users logged in and session 1 is +always "Dad" and session 2 is always "Mum", if Mum knows that she does +ctl+alt+F2 to switch to her session when she is logged in, however in +order to login, Dad has to already be logged in and either select the +Switch User option, or do so from a logged screen. + +But say there has been a power cut and the machine is rebooted, Dad +hasn't logged in but Mum wants to use "her" session on VT2 because +that's what they are both used to. + +If she presses ctl+alt+f2 when at the login prompt, all she sees is a +text login, this will be confusing to her. However if it spawns a new +graphical login, then she'll appreciate she's not logged in yet and log in. + +So stand by my original suggestion that if you are running a graphical +target, Switching to a TTY to get a "login prompt" should show you a +graphical login prompt. If however you are only in the text level +(multi-user.target) then you should be given text logins. + +Col + +-- + +Colin Guthrie +colin(at)mageia.org +<A HREF="http://colin.guthr.ie/">http://colin.guthr.ie/</A> + +Day Job: + Tribalogic Limited <A HREF="http://www.tribalogic.net/">http://www.tribalogic.net/</A> +Open Source: + Mageia Contributor <A HREF="http://www.mageia.org/">http://www.mageia.org/</A> + PulseAudio Hacker <A HREF="http://www.pulseaudio.org/">http://www.pulseaudio.org/</A> + Trac Hacker <A HREF="http://trac.edgewall.org/">http://trac.edgewall.org/</A> +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="010642.html">[Mageia-dev] ANN: X11 now starts on tty1 +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="010644.html">[Mageia-dev] ANN: X11 now starts on tty1 +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#10643">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#10643">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#10643">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#10643">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |