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

Sat Dec 17 11:10:05 CET 2011

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
+