Reasons to preseve X on tty7
Hans de Goede
j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl
Wed Oct 29 10:26:41 UTC 2008
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
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