Interesting... I have used that feature for several purposes: * when shutting down with "init 5", if I want to see the shutdown messages,
* occasionally, when modifying xorg.conf, * for fixing a broken desktop configuration, a habit from before the "failsafe xterm" login option was available, * when I have to make a quick configuration change and then immediately reboot. In the grand scheme of things, it's much less important of a feature with Solaris 10 and a decent PC than it was in the days of 400MHz systems, and perhaps I'm carrying over a habit from Linux (where, esp. with Gentoo, I'm more frequently updating X components themselves), but it still seems like too useful of a feature to drop. -- Jake On 7/19/05, Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at sun.com> wrote: > Jake Hamby wrote: > > One feature that is currently missing from the gdm2 login service compared > to "dtlogin" is being able to drop down to a console login, do some work > (for example on the Xserver configuration), and then have X restart when I > log out. In the Linux world, this isn't really necessary since you can > always hit CTRL-ALT-F1 to jump to a virtual console, although in this case > you might have to manually shut down gdm and restart it. > > In the discussions about whether gdm should be the default login > service, it's been actively debated as to whether users actually > use this - do you use it? If so, what for? > > -- > -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com > Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering >
