X on tty1 in Rawhide/F10

[Dan Horák]

Christopher Stone píše v Út 28. 10. 2008 v 09:30 -0700:
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de>
> wrote:
>         
>         On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 09:06 -0700, Christopher Stone wrote:
>         > On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 8:39 AM, Ralf Corsepius
>         <rc040203 at freenet.de>
>         > wrote:
>         >         On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 16:24 +0100, Olivier Galibert
>         wrote:
>         >         > On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 04:49:33PM +0200, shmuel
>         siegel
>         >         wrote:
>         >         > > Did you ever think that maybe, just maybe, the
>         code did
>         >         that
>         >         > > deliberately? Maybe someone thought that it
>         would be a
>         >         good idea for
>         >         > > usable consoles numbers to start at 1?  Or
>         someone thought
>         >         that once
>         >         > > people started down a certain path with
>         conventions, it
>         >         shouldn't be
>         >         > > changed unless the people saw a real benefit.
>         >         >
>         >         > Haven't you heard?  If you're not a graphical-only
>         >         desktop-type single
>         >         > user working on a laptop, you're not relevant.
>         >
>         >         Exactly - nothing much to add.
>         >
>         >         Time to evaluate other distros.
>         >
>         >
>         >
>         > I can think of better reasons to switch distros other than
>         what tty X
>         > is run on.
>         
>         True, but it's one brick in a lengthy series of stupid and
>         silly
>         decisions, which have been gradually running down Fedora into
>         this
>         single-user windows clone it has evolved into.
> 
> I'm not sure why you think it is stupid and silly.  Perhaps I have not
> read this tread closely enough.  I personally think it is totally
> irrelevant and I could care less if X is run on tty1, tty7 or tty4 for
> that matter.
> 
> Is there some technical reason to keep X on tty7 other than "that's
> the way it has always been"?
> 

Maybe because you want to switch to the first vt with Ctrl-Alt-F1 and
not Ctrl-Alt-F2?

> 
> I don't see how tty7 or tty1 makes any difference to a desktop user,
> or a server user, or a newbie or an expert.

> Linux has evolved away from many anachronistic traditions of  Unix, I
> don't see how this is any different.


		Dan