On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 2:51 PM, Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dan Nicholson (dbn.lists@xxxxxxxxx) said: >> > * The default behavior of X on tty7 has been in place since the >> > beginning (almost a decade and a half). >> >> This is actually convention, not any enforced behavior. There is >> nothing magic about tty7. It just so happens that the typical init >> configuration has been gettys on the first 6 ttys. When X starts, it >> simply chooses the next available VT. This has always been >> configurable - /etc/inittab with sysvinit and now >> /etc/event.d/tty[1-6] with upstart. Personally, I always thought that >> 6 consoles was more than I've ever wanted, so for me the "default" X >> was tty4. > > The fact that it's just convention based on the number of ttys > configured (that the admin can override) also means that any > change to unilaterally swtich to tty7 in plymouth means you're > potentially stomping on a local-use-for-something-else tty. I > don't think telling admins "if you want to run top on tty7, or > have already configured your system to do so, you need to edit some > plymouth thing and re-run mkinitrd for any kernel you want to boot" > is something that's necessarily going to fly. I didn't suggest having plymouth change to tty7. In fact, I posted a patch so that it's all controlled from /etc/sysconfig/desktop instead of having plymouth and gdm work behind the scenes. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-October/msg02516.html Does that seem reasonable at all? -- Dan -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
