Le lundi 16 novembre 2009 à 13:55 +0100, Harald Braumann a écrit : > > Just because it is a tradition doesn’t mean it’s the correct way. > So far I haven't seen any argument as to why it shouldn't be the correct > way.
It’s broken because: * there are race conditions in the way VTs are allocated; * text consoles are statically allocated, which means there are too many for some users and not enough for some others; * the display manager should run on the first VT. > > * New GDM upstream, as is, is completely broken. > That seems to be the only reason. But this is clearly a bug in GDM, > that should be fixed there. Yes, but there are better ways to fix bugs than mimicking already existing bugs. > If you want X on another tty, change it in /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers. If you > need more ttys, add gettys to /etc/inittab. This system is so simple and > flexible, that I don't see how you can improve on it. Yeah, sure. Like, you know, dynamic VT allocation and X server. > So the solution is to make GDM configurable by a parameter or a config > file to set the vt it should start on. You really don’t know what you are talking about, do you? > > I don’t see this as rocket science software, and it means: > > * No useless getty processes are started. > I never considered this to be a real problem. I always consider it a problem when there are unneeded processes on the system. > > * tty1 is always the first VT you log on, regardless of your > > setup. > I don't see this as an improvement. I always want X on the same tty, no > matter in which order I do things. Or did I misunderstand something > here? X is not always on the same tty. It is only if you use an antiquity like xdm. Even with startx, tty allocation is dynamic. > > * You can start an arbitrary number of text or graphical > > consoles, without any configuration. > Is this really a requirement? Where are the wishlist bugs of users > demanding this? And anyway, a simple script that looks for the next > free tty and spawns getty there solves this nice and easy. No it does not. Especially since “looking for the next free tty” is not a safe operation. Cheers, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “I recommend you to learn English in hope that you in `- future understand things” -- Jörg Schilling
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