Non-X text mode console

Colin Walters walters at verbum.org
Mon Sep 15 19:27:58 UTC 2008


On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Jochen Schmitt <Jochen at herr-schmitt.de> wrote:
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> David A. Wheeler schrieb:
>> I think it's clear from this discussion here that many people DO
>> find non-X console mode useful, and thus, it shouldn't be removed:
>> Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski:
> I agree with you, that a release of Fedora without non-x mode console
> may be
> a disadvantage.
>
> Blind or low vision people may prefer non-X mode consoles. And I think
> there are other
> peoples with such prefernces too.

For such use cases, an X terminal emulator such as gnome-terminal
should be indistinguishable.  Except that all the OS infrastructure
like DBus, sound, etc. will be available and work.




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