retitle 339855 g-i should offer a shell within the graphical environment thanks On Saturday 25 February 2006 21:41, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: > As it seems that creating a GTK terminal widget usable with DFB is not > something is going to be done in short time ( and removing "Execute a > shell" form main-menu is not the optimal solution, as proposed in the > plan for tomorrow's d-i meeting ) i propose this patch to > d-i-utils-shell.postinst from debian-installer-utils package [...] > when the user presses "Execute a shell", the "chvt 2" command is run > and the console is switched to VT2. Attilio, thanks for this patch and working out this console switching option, but... By accident I yesterday came across a simple way to remove "Execute a shell" from the main menu by adding an "isinstallable" file for it which exits 1 if the gtk frontend is used. I do very much prefer that to switching to VT2 when the user uses that menu option as it is not intuitive how to switch back. I also think that opening a shell from the menu is not the optimal way to open a shell for the graphical installer. This does not of course mean that we should not still find a way to open a shell within the graphical environment. I've retitled the BR for this.
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