I suggest starting a new thread on this subject. This BR has been closed now and so anything added here is not really useful for future reference. The issue of availability of a shell is more general anyway than just rescue mode.
On Saturday 03 February 2007 12:06, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: > This week i did some experiments with libvte and gtk/dfb: it turns out > that libvte just needs some simple patching to be built against > gtk/dfb. Attached screenshot shows a terminal widget embedded into the > gtk frontend, on my development debian system. Looks nice! > What do you think? is having a graphical console inside the g-i worth > alocating 800KB on istalation media to libraries plus some MB for > runtime memory requirements? I think we should try to find a "lighter" solution for such basic functionality. However, we should definitely keep this in mind as an option.
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