On Sun, 24 Feb 2013 01:01:19 +0100 Josselin Mouette <j...@debian.org> wrote:
> Le samedi 23 février 2013 à 16:27 +0100, Julien Cristau a écrit :
> > Control: reassign -1 gdm3
> > Control: tag -1 moreinfo
> >
> > > After logging into the GUI on tty7 and logging out the GUI switches to
> > > tty8.
> > > After logging into the GUI on tty8 and logging out the GUI switches to
> > > tty9.
> > > After logging into the GUI on tty9 and logging out the GUI switches to
> > > tty8.
> > > The GUI switches from tty8 to tty9 and vise versa after logging out.
> >
> > Why is that a problem?
>
> You might as well reassign the bug to the kernel or X, or whatever. I
> have already verified twice that the GDM code for selecting the TTY is
> correct; it is the kernel that reports this or that TTY as being used.
>
> And frankly, as Julien mentioned, there is zero functional impact on
> users, so I fail to see why anyone should care.
There's one very obvious functional impact: it makes it difficult to
switch back to the GUI VT after switching to the console. A user hits
Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get to the text console, does whatever they needed to do
there, and then has to go searching across Ctrl-Alt-F{7,8,9} to find the
GUI.
- Josh Triplett
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