On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 10:24 -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 10:17 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 09:44:48AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> > > - user logging in on vty.
> > > - user logging in on vty and running startx/xinit
> > These will be going away - just run X with a fullscreen shell.
>
> Wait, what???
The virtual consoles will still be around, but really should only be an
emergency fallback. The right way to do this is to log in via gdm, and
select a session that gives you a fullscreen shell (with tabs, windows,
virtual desktops) etc.
I think someone is assuming the wrong thing about why people use
virtual, text-based consoles. I don't know about others, but the only
reason I use VCs these days is when X won't work or something is hogging
the system resources and I have to use a minimalistic shell to fix it.
I don't think supporting sound via PulseAudio is a big issue for
occasional VC users. But again, if PulseAudio starts itself
automatically either via its library or some other trigger (such as a
socket open request), it wouldn't even be an issue.
This gives us one supported login path for local machines, and
avoids
all the brokenness that occurs with multiple concurrent logins to a
shared home directory.
As much as I laud the attempt to incorporate smooth usage of shared home
directories, I wouldn't do it at the expense of other "features" that
other uses might want such as a VC or a different login manager.
<emphasis>Not that I'm asking everything to be supported.</emphasis>
I'm
just hoping no one starts lopping off other features for causing
"breakage".
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Richi Plana