Re: GDM, getty and VTs
Josselin Mouette, le Sat 14 Nov 2009 15:45:11 +0100, a écrit :
> * I don’t think we need more than 2 of these. They are still
> useful for servers or when some disaster happens in the GUI, but
> who opens 6 console sessions nowadays?
Blind people and crazy people who always run startx by hand, and also on
servers. Actually I even sometimes need to open another one. No, even
in that case I don't necessarily want to run X. Yes, in that case gdm
doesn't get started so it shouldn't be so hard to find a solution.
> * For desktop machines, the display manager starts on tty7, which
> means there is a tty switch to display it. This causes a small
> latency and can also create some bugs when you’re using a
> graphical boot splash.
The graphical boot splash could go to tty7.
> * Does upstart make things like dynamic allocation of VTs
> possible?
> * Otherwise, shouldn’t we replace the getty processes started by
> init by a small daemon that can allocate them as we see fit?
> In all cases, as long as some consoles are managed by /etc/inittab we
> are kind of doomed.
I guess you mean as long as there is no negociation between gdm and
whatever decides where gettys go?
Samuel
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