X on tty1 in Rawhide/F10
Dan Nicholson
dbn.lists at gmail.com
Tue Oct 28 13:27:50 UTC 2008
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 4:40 AM, Dmitry Butskoy <buc at odusz.so-cdu.ru> wrote:
>
> By the way, I cannot understand why gdm, when running before mingetty (for
> better startup speed), must be run on tty1 only. It seems that it should be
> possible to run it before, but cause it to use tty7.
It's not for speed, it's so there will be no VT switching when booting.
> It is insignificant for end users on what tty X run. But for other users, it
> is better to preserve compatibility with 10+ years.
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?
--
Dan
More information about the fedora-devel-list
mailing list