Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: X11 now starts on tty1

2011-12-28 Thread Frank Griffin
On 12/20/2011 02:56 AM, P. Christeas wrote: On Saturday 17 December 2011, Colin Guthrie wrote: Back in the day, text logins were the norm, graphical logins came later. Text logins got ttys 1-7... These days they are pretty much useless for 99.5% of the use cases ... I'd like to question that.

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: X11 now starts on tty1

2011-12-28 Thread Frank Griffin
On 12/28/2011 10:31 AM, Frank Griffin wrote: Col, Could you have a look at https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2600 ? It appears that starting X on tty1 may be causing problems on single-core machines, as something is starting mingetty on tty1 repeatedly. Also, I'm not sure what the

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: X11 now starts on tty1

2011-12-28 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and P. Christeas at 20/12/11 07:56 did gyre and gimble: On Saturday 17 December 2011, Colin Guthrie wrote: Back in the day, text logins were the norm, graphical logins came later. Text logins got ttys 1-7... These days they are pretty much useless for 99.5% of the use cases ...

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: X11 now starts on tty1

2011-12-18 Thread Anssi Hannula
On 17.12.2011 17:27, Anssi Hannula wrote: On 16.12.2011 20:16, Colin Guthrie wrote: Hi Just in case you didn't notice, X11 now starts on tty1 by default. So if you want a text login shell, make sure you go to tty2! I've not actually updated it for sysvinit now I think about it, so I'll

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: X11 now starts on tty1

2011-12-18 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Anssi Hannula at 18/12/11 10:32 did gyre and gimble: For the record, attached are three alternative [1] untested proof-of-concept patches that make kernel start on vt7. Personally I'm not a fan of sticking to vt7. As I said in an earlier thread, if the primary use case of the

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: X11 now starts on tty1

2011-12-18 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op zondag 18 december 2011 11:54:17 schreef Colin Guthrie: 'Twas brillig, and Anssi Hannula at 18/12/11 10:32 did gyre and gimble: For the record, attached are three alternative [1] untested proof-of-concept patches that make kernel start on vt7. Personally I'm not a fan of sticking to

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: X11 now starts on tty1

2011-12-18 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Maarten Vanraes at 18/12/11 11:46 did gyre and gimble: Op zondag 18 december 2011 11:54:17 schreef Colin Guthrie: 'Twas brillig, and Anssi Hannula at 18/12/11 10:32 did gyre and gimble: For the record, attached are three alternative [1] untested proof-of-concept patches that

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: X11 now starts on tty1

2011-12-18 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
2011/12/18 Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie: 'Twas brillig, and Maarten Vanraes at 18/12/11 11:46 did gyre and gimble: Op zondag 18 december 2011 11:54:17 schreef Colin Guthrie: 'Twas brillig, and Anssi Hannula at 18/12/11 10:32 did gyre and gimble: For the record, attached are three

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: X11 now starts on tty1

2011-12-18 Thread Johnny A. Solbu
On Sunday 18 December 2011 13:26, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: What happens if a user wants to boot into run level 3? He will get a text prompt because neither x nor any DM has started yet - where does he land, on VT7? And don't forget, some users Only use text logins, and don't even have any

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: X11 now starts on tty1

2011-12-18 Thread Sander Lepik
18.12.2011 17:43, Johnny A. Solbu kirjutas: Whatever you do, Do Not completely remove the abillity to have a few simultanious text logins alongside a graphical login. The users who depend upon using a text login alongside the graphical environment are more than one should think. F1-F6 for

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: X11 now starts on tty1

2011-12-18 Thread Johnny A. Solbu
On Sunday 18 December 2011 17:23, Sander Lepik wrote: F1-F6 for graphical login, F7-F11 for console. I can live with that. ;-)= -- Johnny A. Solbu PGP key ID: 0xFA687324 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: X11 now starts on tty1

2011-12-18 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
2011/12/18 Johnny A. Solbu coo...@solbu.net: On Sunday 18 December 2011 17:23, Sander Lepik wrote: F1-F6 for graphical login, F7-F11 for console. I can live with that. ;-)= Me too :) Provided that - the wanted system start to run level 3 goes to a text login in tty7 (as the first text

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: X11 now starts on tty1

2011-12-18 Thread Johnny A. Solbu
On Sunday 18 December 2011 17:54, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: Provided that - the wanted system start to run level 3 goes to a text login in tty7 (as the first text console) - marking Go to text console in the DM login takes you to tty7 - a x server failure at system start brings you to a text

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: X11 now starts on tty1

2011-12-18 Thread Frank Griffin
On 12/18/2011 02:07 PM, Johnny A. Solbu wrote: On Sunday 18 December 2011 17:54, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: Provided that - the wanted system start to run level 3 goes to a text login in tty7 (as the first text console) - marking Go to text console in the DM login takes you to tty7 - a x server

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: X11 now starts on tty1

2011-12-18 Thread Sander Lepik
18.12.2011 22:53, Frank Griffin kirjutas: Wouldn't the obvious solution be to make the tty assignments easily configurable by the user ? Then pick an agreed default, and let anyone with different requirements modify it. Nop, that's not a good idea. You give people the option to configure and

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: X11 now starts on tty1

2011-12-18 Thread Florian Hubold
Am 18.12.2011 16:43, schrieb Johnny A. Solbu: On Sunday 18 December 2011 13:26, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: What happens if a user wants to boot into run level 3? He will get a text prompt because neither x nor any DM has started yet - where does he land, on VT7? And don't forget, some users

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: X11 now starts on tty1

2011-12-18 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op zondag 18 december 2011 13:03:56 schreef Colin Guthrie: [...] new X sessions are started from the old session, so i vote that CTRL+ALT+FX spawns a text-based login. They can be, but I'd vote that this should change. e.g. if you have a setup where you typically have two users logged in

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: X11 now starts on tty1

2011-12-17 Thread Florian Hubold
Am 17.12.2011 02:26, schrieb Maarten Vanraes: Op zaterdag 17 december 2011 02:03:55 schreef Colin Guthrie: 'Twas brillig, and Maarten Vanraes at 17/12/11 00:50 did gyre and gimble: how does this relate to multiple sessions? if it starts at tty1 and next session starts at tty2 and so forth,

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: X11 now starts on tty1

2011-12-17 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op zaterdag 17 december 2011 10:52:52 schreef Florian Hubold: Am 17.12.2011 02:26, schrieb Maarten Vanraes: Op zaterdag 17 december 2011 02:03:55 schreef Colin Guthrie: 'Twas brillig, and Maarten Vanraes at 17/12/11 00:50 did gyre and gimble: how does this relate to multiple sessions? if it

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: X11 now starts on tty1

2011-12-17 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
2011/12/17 Maarten Vanraes al...@rmail.be: Op zaterdag 17 december 2011 10:52:52 schreef Florian Hubold: Am 17.12.2011 02:26, schrieb Maarten Vanraes: Op zaterdag 17 december 2011 02:03:55 schreef Colin Guthrie: 'Twas brillig, and Maarten Vanraes at 17/12/11 00:50 did gyre and gimble: how

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: X11 now starts on tty1

2011-12-17 Thread Sander Lepik
17.12.2011 12:10, Wolfgang Bornath kirjutas: I really beg to think the whole matter over again, at least until it is mature enough to be implemented in cauldron for practical test. People will get used to it rather fast. -- Sander

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: X11 now starts on tty1

2011-12-17 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
2011/12/17 Sander Lepik sander.le...@eesti.ee: 17.12.2011 12:10, Wolfgang Bornath kirjutas: I really beg to think the whole matter over again, at least until it is mature enough to be implemented in cauldron for practical test. People will get used to it rather fast. May be yes, may be no.

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: X11 now starts on tty1

2011-12-17 Thread Florian Hubold
Am 17.12.2011 11:26, schrieb Wolfgang Bornath: 2011/12/17 Sander Lepik sander.le...@eesti.ee: 17.12.2011 12:10, Wolfgang Bornath kirjutas: I really beg to think the whole matter over again, at least until it is mature enough to be implemented in cauldron for practical test. People will get

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: X11 now starts on tty1

2011-12-17 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
2011/12/17 Florian Hubold doktor5...@arcor.de: Am 17.12.2011 11:26, schrieb Wolfgang Bornath: 2011/12/17 Sander Lepik sander.le...@eesti.ee: 17.12.2011 12:10, Wolfgang Bornath kirjutas: I really beg to think the whole matter over again, at least until it is mature enough to be implemented in

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: X11 now starts on tty1

2011-12-17 Thread P. Christeas
On Saturday 17 December 2011, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: That's one matter, the other one will be teaching all users who were used to the current scheme, ++ Don't underestimate the power of habits, versus the 'flicker' inconvenience. It is a long habit, it is written in all How-To's, many also

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: X11 now starts on tty1

2011-12-17 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op zaterdag 17 december 2011 11:58:31 schreef Wolfgang Bornath: 2011/12/17 Florian Hubold doktor5...@arcor.de: Am 17.12.2011 11:26, schrieb Wolfgang Bornath: 2011/12/17 Sander Lepik sander.le...@eesti.ee: 17.12.2011 12:10, Wolfgang Bornath kirjutas: I really beg to think the whole matter

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: X11 now starts on tty1

2011-12-17 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
2011/12/17 Maarten Vanraes al...@rmail.be: if we get such a dynamic scheme, that would be nice. but that will likely only work on systemd... what about sysvinit? it was still supposed to be the default for mga2 ... but we can test, and work on that... if it doesn't work with sysvinit

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: X11 now starts on tty1

2011-12-17 Thread Anssi Hannula
On 16.12.2011 20:16, Colin Guthrie wrote: Hi Just in case you didn't notice, X11 now starts on tty1 by default. So if you want a text login shell, make sure you go to tty2! I've not actually updated it for sysvinit now I think about it, so I'll have to update the default inittab, but

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: X11 now starts on tty1

2011-12-17 Thread Thomas Spuhler
On Saturday, December 17, 2011 03:54:33 AM P. Christeas wrote: On Saturday 17 December 2011, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: That's one matter, the other one will be teaching all users who were used to the current scheme, ++ Don't underestimate the power of habits, versus the 'flicker'

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: X11 now starts on tty1

2011-12-17 Thread Thierry Vignaud
On 17 December 2011 11:26, Wolfgang Bornath molc...@googlemail.com wrote: May be yes, may be no. I'm thinking about those computer adepts who have spent 10-15 years with the Ctrl-Alt-F1 combo, is it so easy to change a grown habit which is like the Red = Stop! paradigma? I'm thinking also

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: X11 now starts on tty1

2011-12-17 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
2011/12/17 Thierry Vignaud thierry.vign...@gmail.com: On 17 December 2011 11:26, Wolfgang Bornath molc...@googlemail.com wrote: May be yes, may be no. I'm thinking about those computer adepts who have spent 10-15 years with the Ctrl-Alt-F1 combo, is it so easy to change a grown habit which is

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: X11 now starts on tty1

2011-12-17 Thread Johnny A. Solbu
On Saturday 17 December 2011 17:46, Thierry Vignaud wrote: On 17 December 2011 11:26, Wolfgang Bornath molc...@googlemail.com wrote: So, my question is whether a second's flickering during startup really justifies such a strong change? I was thinking the same thing, but hold it to myself.

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: X11 now starts on tty1

2011-12-17 Thread Sander Lepik
17.12.2011 19:14, Johnny A. Solbu kirjutas: Another friend of mine which is not in any of these lists, and is blind, was surprised to hear about this change, and was wondering whether this was a Mageia specifi change. I said I believe it was. Well, it's not. -- Sander

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: X11 now starts on tty1

2011-12-17 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Wolfgang Bornath at 17/12/11 10:58 did gyre and gimble: About the question how hard it is to press another key: not hard. But the Ctrl-Alt-F1 has been a standard in ALL distributions and ALL documentations. Back in the day, text logins were the norm, graphical logins came

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: X11 now starts on tty1

2011-12-17 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 17/12/11 20:24 did gyre and gimble: 'Twas brillig, and Wolfgang Bornath at 17/12/11 10:58 did gyre and gimble: About the question how hard it is to press another key: not hard. But the Ctrl-Alt-F1 has been a standard in ALL distributions and ALL

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: X11 now starts on tty1

2011-12-17 Thread Kamil Rytarowski
W dniu 17.12.2011 21:24, Colin Guthrie pisze: 'Twas brillig, and Wolfgang Bornath at 17/12/11 10:58 did gyre and gimble: About the question how hard it is to press another key: not hard. But the Ctrl-Alt-F1 has been a standard in ALL distributions and ALL documentations. [..] That's my take

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: X11 now starts on tty1

2011-12-17 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Kamil Rytarowski at 17/12/11 20:30 did gyre and gimble: W dniu 17.12.2011 21:24, Colin Guthrie pisze: 'Twas brillig, and Wolfgang Bornath at 17/12/11 10:58 did gyre and gimble: About the question how hard it is to press another key: not hard. But the Ctrl-Alt-F1 has been a

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: X11 now starts on tty1

2011-12-17 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op zaterdag 17 december 2011 14:10:37 schreef Wolfgang Bornath: 2011/12/17 Maarten Vanraes al...@rmail.be: if we get such a dynamic scheme, that would be nice. but that will likely only work on systemd... what about sysvinit? it was still supposed to be the default for mga2 ... but we

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: X11 now starts on tty1

2011-12-17 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op zaterdag 17 december 2011 18:09:48 schreef Wolfgang Bornath: 2011/12/17 Thierry Vignaud thierry.vign...@gmail.com: [...] you're kidding... If you read some other comments here you think they are kidding, too? As a special service I will tell you next time when I'm kidding. if ever :-)

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: X11 now starts on tty1

2011-12-17 Thread David Walser
Anssi Hannula wrote: On 16.12.2011 20:16, Colin Guthrie wrote: Hi Just in case you didn't notice, X11 now starts on tty1 by default. So if you want a text login shell, make sure you go to tty2! I've not actually updated it for sysvinit now I think about it, so I'll have to update the

[Mageia-dev] ANN: X11 now starts on tty1

2011-12-16 Thread Colin Guthrie
Hi Just in case you didn't notice, X11 now starts on tty1 by default. So if you want a text login shell, make sure you go to tty2! I've not actually updated it for sysvinit now I think about it, so I'll have to update the default inittab, but the principle is the same. We want X there, not a

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: X11 now starts on tty1

2011-12-16 Thread Johnny A. Solbu
On Friday 16 December 2011 19:16, Colin Guthrie wrote: Just in case you didn't notice, X11 now starts on tty1 by default. Why this change? -- Johnny A. Solbu PGP key ID: 0xFA687324 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: X11 now starts on tty1

2011-12-16 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Sander Lepik at 16/12/11 21:40 did gyre and gimble: 16.12.2011 23:14, Johnny A. Solbu kirjutas: On Friday 16 December 2011 19:16, Colin Guthrie wrote: Just in case you didn't notice, X11 now starts on tty1 by default. Why this change? Less flickering at boot AFAIK. That's

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: X11 now starts on tty1

2011-12-16 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op vrijdag 16 december 2011 23:22:23 schreef Colin Guthrie: 'Twas brillig, and Sander Lepik at 16/12/11 21:40 did gyre and gimble: 16.12.2011 23:14, Johnny A. Solbu kirjutas: On Friday 16 December 2011 19:16, Colin Guthrie wrote: Just in case you didn't notice, X11 now starts on tty1 by

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: X11 now starts on tty1

2011-12-16 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Maarten Vanraes at 17/12/11 00:50 did gyre and gimble: how does this relate to multiple sessions? if it starts at tty1 and next session starts at tty2 and so forth, were are the textbased tty's then? 2nd session starts on tty7 (i.e. the next available tty). Not exactly super

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: X11 now starts on tty1

2011-12-16 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op zaterdag 17 december 2011 02:03:55 schreef Colin Guthrie: 'Twas brillig, and Maarten Vanraes at 17/12/11 00:50 did gyre and gimble: how does this relate to multiple sessions? if it starts at tty1 and next session starts at tty2 and so forth, were are the textbased tty's then? 2nd