[Mageia-dev] Minimum install of cauldron don't start console

Tue Mar 6 14:42:54 CET 2012

'Twas brillig, and Frank Griffin at 06/03/12 13:33 did gyre and gimble:
+> There has been a lot of discussion about this, and I'd just like some
+> clarification of how the folks implementing thought it was supposed to
+> turn out.
+> 
+> My understanding was that the DM was to start on tty1, and some lower
+> subset of the ttys, say 2-6 or 7, was supposed to be reserved for
+> alternate graphical logins, but that console (getty) ttys would still be
+> available on the higher ttys.  Maybe not as easy to find, but more
+> consistent with current usage.
+
+This would still be my preference, but critically it would depend on the
+current target.
+
+If you are booting to graphical.target then some subset of the lower
+ttys would automatically start X+dm on that tty when you switch to it,
+but if you boot to multi-user.target it would show you getty.
+
+Thus server installs would be no different to how they've been for years
+(which hopefully addresses most of the greybeard complaint) and for
+users who don't know what the heck a console login is, they will
+hopefully be presented with nice, user friendly login prompts. Everyone
+is a winner.
+
+> I'm seeing what Olivier is seeing (although this is a desktop system and
+> not a minimal system).  In my primary desktop, I can hit CTRL-ALT-Fn for
+> n = 1 to 12, and I get no response at all.  It just stays on the same
+> desktop.
+
+Not sure about that one. Smells like some other bug if it doesn't move.
+Has your keyboard got a special "fn" key that disables the function
+keys? Mine does.
+
+Col
+
+
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