Fedora 10 ctf-alt-F2

[Jerry Feldman]

On 12/23/2008 02:50 PM, Don Levey wrote:
> Jeff Spaleta wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Don Levey <fedora-list at the-leveys.us> wrote:
>>     
>>> This means that I must always have at least one Gnome session active,
>>> and I must use that as my control session.  It also seems that there's a
>>> "mixed metaphor" in that the first X session is F1 but the rest start at
>>> F7.
>>>       
>> Its only a mixed metaphor in that you are relying on keyboard
>> shortcuts which encode specific virtual terminals to specific key
>> mappings. This metaphor breaks down quickly once you start doing
>> anything dynamic. Have 3 or 4 fast user switching users log in and
>> logout in varying orders and even if the the X sessions were mapped to
>> high ttys they would not be in a consistent ordering as users bounce
>> on and off the system.  Its quite analogous to how me moved from fixed
>> block device naming to udev dynamic block device creation.
>>
>> Don't be shocked if we move into a future where the 5 or 6 mingetty's
>> we start by default now are also started dynamically in the future and
>> are given the next available tty instead of being on tty2-tt6 from
>> boot up.
>>
>> -jef
>>
>>     
>
> That makes sense, I guess - this part of the question was relatively
> minor anyway.  What I'd really like is to find a way to do all this
> without the Gnome session requirement.
>
>   
Don,
I don't recall fro the thread, but what Display Manager are you using. 
Does it make a difference if you are running kdm or gdm?

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