X on tty1 in Rawhide/F10

shmuel siegel fedora at shmuelhome.mine.nu
Tue Oct 28 20:35:43 UTC 2008


Bill Nottingham wrote:
> 1) Reducing the amount of flicker and useless mode switching on startup
> is definitely a good thing
> 2) From a logical standpoint, the first tty should be for the most important
> user interaction. If you're booting in text mode, that's a getty. If
> you're booting with a GUI login... that's the GUI.
>
> Bill
We disagree on the second point. I don't see where the GUI login cares 
which tty is being used. But humans switching to console mode do want to 
know which parameter to use.




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