'Twas brillig, and Frank Griffin at 06/03/12 13:56 did gyre and gimble: > On 03/06/2012 08:42 AM, Colin Guthrie wrote: >> If you are booting to graphical.target then some subset of the lower >> ttys would automatically start X+dm on that tty when you switch to it, >> but if you boot to multi-user.target it would show you getty. > > By "multi-user target" do you mean level 3 ?
Yes. Sorry I tried to use both terms together most of the time (to get the terminology solidified in peoples minds) but I guess I missed one). >> Thus server installs would be no different to how they've been for >> years (which hopefully addresses most of the greybeard complaint) and >> for users who don't know what the heck a console login is, they will >> hopefully be presented with nice, user friendly login prompts. >> Everyone is a winner. >>> I'm seeing what Olivier is seeing (although this is a desktop system and >>> not a minimal system). In my primary desktop, I can hit CTRL-ALT-Fn for >>> n = 1 to 12, and I get no response at all. It just stays on the same >>> desktop. >> Not sure about that one. Smells like some other bug if it doesn't move. >> Has your keyboard got a special "fn" key that disables the function >> keys? Mine does. > > Mine does too (bloody Logitech), but Fn keys are enabled., so it's not > that. Is there perhaps something I don't have installed that enables > X+dm restart and autovt ? If autovt were not present or disabled, that > might explain why a second X+dm doesn't start (no available vt) ? Sorry, I was unclear in my last email. I've not enabled the ability to start a second X+DM yet (it needs changes to the DM's themselves which I've not looked at - tho' it should be pretty simple) such that you can specify the vt to use when they are started. Then I'd need to adjust autovt to start a wrapper script that starts either getty or X+DM as appropriate. So this isn't in place yet, but I do still think it's the way forward. Should be possible to get it done I think. Col -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
