On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 16:48 -0800, Alan wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 00:57 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: > >> On Mon, 17.12.07 16:34, Patrice Dumas (pertusus@xxxxxxx) wrote: > >> > >> > > >> > On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 10:24:04AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > >> > > > >> > > The virtual consoles will still be around, but really should only be > >> an > >> > > emergency fallback. The right way to do this is to log in via gdm, > >> and > >> > > select a session that gives you a fullscreen shell (with tabs, > >> windows, > >> > > virtual desktops) etc. > >> > > >> > A display manager should not need to be installed. On servers, for > >> > example http servers you want an http server to be installed and > >> that's > >> > all. No X server, not even X libraries (if possible). > >> > >> Hmm? If you want no X, then you certainly also don't want any PA. I > >> mean, last time I was in a server room I didn't see a single server > >> with boxes attached... ;-) > > > > Would you believe I still know people who only use linux via consoles? > > Most of the stuff she does is using emacs. The rest are from bash. Even > > I remember the time when that's all I'd needed and "mpg123 file.mp3" was > > all I needed to play music. ;) > > Its more fun if you use mpg123 to play music on someone elses machine. > (Selections from Marx Brothers movies is always fun.) > > ssh remote command execution on boxes you administer is your friend. ]:> That's the old-school way (which I admit to doing and surprising the heck out of linux newbies in the late 90's). New school is to get permission on the PulseAudio sound server running on that machine ;) -- Richi Plana -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
