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

Tue Mar 6 21:19:49 CET 2012

'Twas brillig, and Maarten Vanraes at 06/03/12 20:09 did gyre and gimble:
+> Op dinsdag 06 maart 2012 20:52:02 schreef Colin Guthrie:
+>> 'Twas brillig, and Maarten Vanraes at 06/03/12 19:41 did gyre and gimble:
+>>> Op dinsdag 06 maart 2012 14:28:38 schreef Colin Guthrie:
+>>> [...]
+>>>
+>>>> Now I'm not sure on the logic inside the Xserver that is used to search
+>>>> for a free getty. it maybe starts from the current one and counts up. If
+>>>> so, this logic should (IMO) be changed to start searching from 1 that
+>>>> way it would relatively consistently start on vt1 even when restarted
+>>>> from tty2.
+>>>>
+>>>> Col
+>>>
+>>> have you been successfull with 2 user sessions?
+>>
+>> As in logging out and back in again or with fast user switching?
+>>
+>> The former has worked quite happily for me. Not tested the latter but I
+>> expect there to be some quirks.
+>>
+>> Col
+> 
+> err, no, i mean 2 X sessions.
+> 
+> often i have one KDE session running on vt8 and one for my wife on vt9 and 
+> sometimes on for my daughter at vt10...
+
+OK, so fast user switching then.
+
+> the question is, with the prefdm only conflicting with the first getty, will 
+> several X sessions be possible?
+
+Yeah. They should, in theory at least, start on vt2 and vt3, tho' this
+may depend on the desktop itself. With GDM+Gnome the second session
+starts on tty2, the third on tty3 etc.
+
+There is a caveat however. If you have switched to tty2 before picking
+the "Login as another user" option, then autovt will have kicked in and
+started a getty there. It then "hogs" tty2 and prevents X from using it.
+
+Of course if I manage to get my idea working, switching to tty2 when in
+graphical.target will actually give you a graphical login prompt anyway,
+so pretty much the same thing as picking the "Login as another user"
+option from within the first graphical session.
+
+Col
+
+
+
+
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