Reasons to preseve X on tty7

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Wed Oct 29 20:23:16 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 14:44 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Matthew Miller wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 02:33:00PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> >>>  The 7th is "nobody should care what tty X is on".  Indeed, why are
> >>> people so upset that it has changed?  Its not an argument for or
> >>> against, its an argument that this thread shouldn't be taking place at
> >>> all.
> >> How do you get back once you have switched to a text vt?
> > 
> > Hit alt-F* until you find where X is?
>
> Thanks, I would never have thought of that.  That will save lots of time.

Given the non-determinism already X being able to grab a tty, I already
play the "hit alt-F* until I find X" and have had to for a long time.

Jeremy




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