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

Sat Dec 17 21:24:56 CET 2011

'Twas brillig, and Wolfgang Bornath at 17/12/11 10:58 did gyre and gimble:
+> About the question how hard it is to press another key: not hard. But
+> the Ctrl-Alt-F1 has been a standard in ALL distributions and ALL
+> documentations.
+
+Back in the day, text logins were the norm, graphical logins came later.
+Text logins got ttys 1-7... These days they are pretty much useless for
+99.5% of the use cases and we have to move with the times. There is no
+point keeping this static for the sake of "that's how it's been done
+before". This is the kind of mentality that block progress.
+
+If we don't want progress and if we don't want to shake of some of the
+hangovers from the old Unix days, we wouldn't have udev, we wouldn't
+have systemd and we wouldn't have numerous other bits.
+
+The same arguments can easily be applied to other areas (people expect
+system service scripts to be in /etc/init.d/ etc.). We need to let it go.
+
+As graphical logins are the norm, we should be be catering to them
+first, and leave text logins for special cases.
+
+That's my take on it.
+
+Col
+
+
+-- 
+
+Colin Guthrie
+colin(at)mageia.org
+http://colin.guthr.ie/
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