Re: Bug#60891: xdm: Installs default tty7 line in Xservers -- break s system
Sven LUTHER <luther@debian.org> writes:
> Just a stupid clueless idea, but what if we start the xserver from the
> inittab, or at least have some line in the inittab saying that the
> Xserver/gdm/whatever will use the vtxx, in the same way that init starts
> getty's on his specific vt's ?
This is what HPUX does, for what that's worth. It seems to work OK.
> BTW, should we have a runlevel with X and a runlevel without X ? or do we
> already have such a thing ?
Again on HPUX, this is runlevel 4; runlevels 2,3 are multiuser but
don't start vue (HP's xdm/kde/... equiv).
It doesn't look like Debian distinguishes between 2,3,4,5, at least on
my woody-with-filerc-i386 system.
I mostly agree with Branden that having xdm and friends fiddle with
important system config files is not so good, I just thought I'd point
out that the init/runlevel thing does work on some unixen.
- M
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