Reasons to preseve X on tty7

Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski dominik at greysector.net
Wed Oct 29 15:26:24 UTC 2008


On Wednesday, 29 October 2008 at 15:32, Brian Wheeler wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 10:25 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> > On 2008/10/29 08:26 (GMT-0400) Brian Wheeler composed:
> > 
> > > Almost all of the "reasons" from the original email boil down to "we've
> > > always done it this way".  
> > 
> > Don't boil it down. The reasons are good why we've always done it this way
> > and should keep the status quo. I haven't seen sufficient reason in this
> > thread to dismiss those reasons.
> 
> _What_ are the good reasons why we've done it this way?  Its only tty7
> because someone arbitrarily decided to run 6 getty processes way back
> when.  If someone had decided that 4 was sufficient, then we'd be
> arguing about tty5.
> 
> At least with X being on tty1 it makes sense since its the primary
> terminal for most people.  
> 
> The only non-"but that's the way it's always been" argument I've seen
> thus far is documentation...which is something that can be changed.

The other is that it won't be tty1 in every case (init 5 after init 3, manual
startx), which can be confusing. Make it so that it's ALWAYS on tty1 and maybe
people will complain less, as long as it's documented properly.

Regards,
R.

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