On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 12:44 -0500, Yaakov Nemoy wrote: > On Dec 17, 2007 12:11 PM, Richi Plana <myfedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I think someone is assuming the wrong thing about why people use > > virtual, text-based consoles. I don't know about others, but the only > > reason I use VCs these days is when X won't work or something is hogging > > the system resources and I have to use a minimalistic shell to fix it. > > In the world of today's über computers using the text console may not > be necessary, but I've had some pretty old computers, that took > forever to start up X. Then running a terminal, even say urxvt with > font-smoothing was slow. Sometimes we just want something simple, and > to have a way of supporting it. > > Actually, i think doing the virtual consoles through X is a cool idea, > because you can do alot of very interesting things that way, but it's > always something to take into consideration, what use cases us edge > people have had. VC over X isn't a bad idea. In fact, it's an interesting idea ... specially if we want to wean console-only users like some emacs geeks I know to X. It doesn't do anything for the context of this thread, though, which is starting the PulseAudio daemon when it is required and when using non-dictated^Wstandard login paths. -- Richi Plana -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
