[Mageia-dev] ANN: X11 now starts on tty1

[Wolfgang Bornath]

2011/12/17 Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com>:
> On 17 December 2011 11:26, Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> May be yes, may be no. I'm thinking about those computer adepts who
>> have spent 10-15 years with the Ctrl-Alt-F1 combo, is it so easy to
>> change a grown habit which is like the "Red = Stop!" paradigma? I'm
>> thinking also about all those who spend time with different distros,
>> having to change one of the most common procedures just for Mageia.
>> I'm thinking of rather new Linuxers who follow advice in documentation
>> - ALL docs on the net talk about Ctrl-Alt-F1, all generic books like
>> Linux in a Nutshell or others talk about Ctrl-Alt-F1.
>
> quite a lot more end users have tested other distro such as fedora so I
> think there're now quite a lot more users who expect x11 on tty1 than
> on those who expect it on tty7

Ah, is Fedora also doing this? I haven't heard that before.

>> So, my question is whether a second's flickering during startup really
>> justifies such a strong change?
>
> you're kidding...

If you read some other comments here you think they are kidding, too?
As a special service I will tell you next time when I'm kidding.

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wobo