Reasons to preseve X on tty7

[Hans de Goede]

Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
>> While I respect your opinions and experience I do think that the
>> reasoning for this behavior change is good enough. I remember the
>> first time I was told how to switch to tty1 some 7-8 years ago.
>> Immediately after switching to tty1 my curiosity boosted up and I
>> tried all the combinations ctrl+alt+F2 through ctrl+alt+F12. I am
>> sure many of us went through a similar experience.
> 
> Yep, but usually you try that *once* and not *each time* you wanna have
> a text console.
> 
> For me usually it is like this:
> 
>   * Oops, something busted in X11.
>   * Try to get a text console via Ctrl-Alt-F1, see if I can fix it up.
> Then either:
>   * Log in, fix, switch back to X11
> or:
>   * Ctrl-Alt-F1 has no effect.  Damn.  Reboot time.
> 

/me must resist to make a comment about the difference between humans and 
animals being the capability to adapt to a changing environment.

There I resisted :)

Regards,

Hans