Reasons to preseve X on tty7

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Fri Oct 31 20:44:40 UTC 2008


Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Dan Nicholson (dbn.lists at gmail.com) said: 
>> Oh, very good point. Let's try again. In the attached patch, all the
>> logic is handled in event.d/prefdm. In particular, when we want to
>> spawn a getty on tty1, we use initctl to emit a new event
>> "tty1-getty". This also includes some logic to try to make sure that
>> the display manager is gdm before assuming that it will be able to
>> start on tty1.
>>
>> What do you think?
> 
> It's still problematic in that whichever vt you run telinit from will
> get gdm, which may not be tty1. (Also, it's just getting a little complex
> overall.)

What happens if you aren't on a vt at all (ssh, remote X, vncserver, 
freenx, etc.?).

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   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell at gmail.com




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