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

Sat Dec 17 21:35:13 CET 2011

'Twas brillig, and Kamil Rytarowski at 17/12/11 20:30 did gyre and gimble:
+> W dniu 17.12.2011 21:24, Colin Guthrie pisze:
+>> '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.
+>> [..]
+>>
+>> That's my take on it.
+>>
+>> Col
+>>
+>>
+> Hello, I have tested in cauldron and it's working fine. Please add an
+> end message at the end of the boot-procedure "Bott procedure succeed.
+> Hit ALT-F2 for text log-in.". Some people use minimal systems for simple
+> tests - I'm doing it for my packages in a pure environment.
+
+I'll work something out... perhaps starting getty on tty1 automatically
+if e.g. prefdm does not run a graphical login. (this would be easy
+enough to hack in).
+
+Col
+
+
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