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

Sun Dec 18 23:21:39 CET 2011

Op zondag 18 december 2011 13:03:56 schreef Colin Guthrie:
+[...]
+> > new X sessions are started from the old session, so i vote that
+> > CTRL+ALT+FX spawns a text-based login.
+> 
+> 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
+
+i think graphical users will use graphical ways of getting to their session 
+(as does my wife), usually the current session is locked and she switches to 
+her own, or she switches to her own, which causes mine to be locked.
+
+even i do it like this instead of pressing ctrl+alt+Fx ...
+