On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 02:40:51PM +0300, Dmitry Butskoy wrote: > I hope it might be possible, by changing the order in upstart -- ie. > first run mingetty, then gdm (as for years before). Perhaps also restore > mingetty on tty1 ... > > By the way, I cannot understand why gdm, when running before mingetty > (for better startup speed), must be run on tty1 only. It seems that it > should be possible to run it before, but cause it to use tty7. > > It is insignificant for end users on what tty X run. But for other > users, it is better to preserve compatibility with 10+ years. > > I can help to make changes for invoking X on tty7 instead of tty1 . It seems an insignificant use case to keep compatibility with X on tty7 compared to the benefits of progress--in this case one less VT change on bootup means less flicker and faster bootup. I've been using Fedora/Red Hat for 10+ years and once the reason was pointed out to me, I completely agree that this is a good move. I'll adjust. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
