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

Tue Mar 6 21:29:56 CET 2012

Op dinsdag 06 maart 2012 21:19:49 schreef Colin Guthrie:
+> '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
+
+ic...
+
+i do hope we get some kind of vt that will always be tty? i do sometimes 
+require that, when getting too much load and OOM'ing...
+
+also, it'd be nice to have as possibility (in the dm) to start a tty session 
+instead of a graphical session (as an alternative)
+
+
+but i guess the important parts are all the other things...
+