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

Colin Guthrie mageia at colin.guthr.ie
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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