X on tty1 in Rawhide/F10

Gerd Hoffmann kraxel at redhat.com
Tue Oct 28 14:37:03 UTC 2008


Dan Nicholson wrote:
> Why is it significant what tty any program runs on? Isn't the
> assumption that getty will be on tty1 just as faulty as the assumption
> X will be on tty7?

It has been that way for a *long* time.  When something goes wrong I
can't fix in X11 usually hit "Ctrl-Alt-F1" to get the login prompt, like
 *lots* of other people I assume.  That suddenly stops working.  Be
prepared for lots of people wondering where the text console is gone to.

cheers,
  Gerd




More information about the fedora-devel-list mailing list