On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 6:44 AM, shmuel siegel <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dan Nicholson wrote: >> >> Why is it significant what tty any program runs on? Isn't the >> assumption that getty will be on tty1 just as faulty as the assumption >> X will be on tty7? >> >> -- >> Dan >> > > Because you are changing a user interface. What is going to happen when the > user switches to tty1 and nothing happens? The basic logic of putting X on > tty7 is to get it out of the way. Humans will use the lowest numbered ttys > first. Besides breaking existing documentation, including advice on various > forums, is not a good idea. The basic logic of X starting on tty7 is because it was the first open VT because getty is already running on tty1-6. I can show you the code in the X server where it picks the first available VT. This is just changing it so that X will start on tty1. What interface is that breaking? A broken assumption that tty1 == !X? -- Dan -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
