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

Sat Dec 17 11:01:24 CET 2011

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?
+
+and what if you log into tty, and later log out again?
+
+perhaps if it's not logged in or shown, it should disappear again, freeing up 
+a spot for graphical sessions?
+