Josselin Mouette wrote:
Le samedi 14 novembre 2009 à 17:42 +0100, Bernhard R. Link a écrit :* Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> [091114 17:26]:I guess you mean as long as there is no negociation between gdm and whatever decides where gettys go?GDM does try to use a VT that is not currently in use - although there can be race conditions.So gdm does not negotiate but just claims "first!".What else can it do? It has to manage its VTs for itself. Currently it is simply forced to use the ones starting from tty7, but it is arbitrary and inconsistent.
Inconsistent? The people who cares known about Alt-F7. Any change will make it inconsistent. Arbitrary? Yes, like "$" on key four. Main display should have a constant tty (on normal configuration). [x crashed, we must be able to tell our user how to restore most of the system in a easy way] If you think it is so important to move tty, please check what is gnome and what is gnome independent, so if possible, provide a generic program or library that do the right thing for all Debian (not just for GNOME). Otherwise, please provide patch for the main xdm (and clones), to have a consistent behaviour. ciao cate