We agree in principle, I think. Would the easiest implementation be to throw all those text start-up and shut-down lines to one of the <alt><ctl>F[2-5] text screens instead of the main console? That way, they would always be there, but never seen by anyone who didn't know how to look at them. Doesn't require any complicated configuration files to be indentified/discovered/edited, either.At 20:47 1/1/2004, you wrote:
Hi there, maybe it's just me, but why use the graphical boot at all? I just uninstalled the rpm and if you still want a graphical login you just set initdefault:5 in /etc/inittab.... (which you probably allready have...)
A graphical boot sequence, and booting into a graphical user interface, are two entirely different things.
I am personally delighted that the graphical boot is finally maturing (and waiting for a graphical shutdown to keep it company). Several computer-illiterate users have commented to me that watching all that cryptic text flying across the screen scares them and has convinced them (just from that one little detail) that Linux is for computer-savvy people only since it /must/ be difficult to understand all that.
-- Fritz Whittington Fear not those who argue but those who dodge. (Marie Ebner von Eschenbach, Aphorisms, 1905)
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