'Twas brillig, and Thomas Backlund at 07/03/12 19:41 did gyre and gimble: > 07.03.2012 21:32, Johnny A. Solbu skrev: >> On Wednesday 07 March 2012 17:16, Colin Guthrie wrote: >>>> What should we use instead? >>> >>> A graphical login agent - i.e gdm, kdm, lxdm etc. >> >> In other words, we should no longer use runlevel 3 as default? >> There are multiuser systems where running a graphical login agent is >> undesireable, for whatever reason. >> > > No. we need runlevel 3 to work too. > > It's insane to expect to have to run any graphical stuff on servers / > routers / ... > > But for most desktop users graphical login is wanted...
Exactly. multi-user.target (aka runlevel 3) is still needed for servers. There is no problem in using this mode. graphical.target (aka runlevel 5) is for users who want a graphical system, again there is no problem with this mode and it is meant to run a graphical login agent. The actual use case of using a text login and then starting X is quite small. Of course some people (like Wobo) do use this but it's definitely the exception rather than the rule. That's why it's not too much of a problem overall IMO. And like I say, this is something other distros have already done (OpenSUSE, Fedora). Col -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/