Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Don Levey <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> This means that I must always have at least one Gnome session active, >> and I must use that as my control session. It also seems that there's a >> "mixed metaphor" in that the first X session is F1 but the rest start at >> F7. > Its only a mixed metaphor in that you are relying on keyboard > shortcuts which encode specific virtual terminals to specific key > mappings. This metaphor breaks down quickly once you start doing > anything dynamic. Have 3 or 4 fast user switching users log in and > logout in varying orders and even if the the X sessions were mapped to > high ttys they would not be in a consistent ordering as users bounce > on and off the system. Its quite analogous to how me moved from fixed > block device naming to udev dynamic block device creation. > > Don't be shocked if we move into a future where the 5 or 6 mingetty's > we start by default now are also started dynamically in the future and > are given the next available tty instead of being on tty2-tt6 from > boot up. > > -jef > That makes sense, I guess - this part of the question was relatively minor anyway. What I'd really like is to find a way to do all this without the Gnome session requirement. -Don -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
