X on tty1 in Rawhide/F10

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue Oct 28 20:22:24 UTC 2008


Olivier Galibert (galibert at pobox.com) said: 
> > Look at the F keys on your keyboard. The whole of your gripe lies within 
> > the space of 6 inches. Lets not have a flame war today. Lets just move 
> > our habits 6 inches to the left and let life be good.
> 
> 6 inches to the left is the phone.
> 
> Yes, I care.  The self-declared "desktop" guys, which for most of them
> don't seem to have met a user in their life, have decided a while ago
> that whoever doesn't fit their imaginary use case is irrelevant and
> can be ignored.

Don't worry, they're coming for your spouses and children next! Seriously,
I'm not sure how this sort of statement provides useful context to the
discussion.

1) Reducing the amount of flicker and useless mode switching on startup
is definitely a good thing
2) From a logical standpoint, the first tty should be for the most important
user interaction. If you're booting in text mode, that's a getty. If
you're booting with a GUI login... that's the GUI.

Bill




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