On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 14:04 +0000, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote:

> Il 09/07/2009 15:25, Martin Pitt ha scritto:
> > It would be much better if the getty invocation would be done to "take
> > the next free tty" instead of a fixed one. Then we wouldn't need any
> > hardcoding at all any more.
> >
> 
> Here there is something I don't understand: either an (advanced) user is 
> supposed to be allowed to use the ttys or not. If she is allowed, for a 
> matter of usability, the gdm tty should be a fixed one, so that the user 
> has a way to get back to gdm without having to guess the tty.
> 
If the gdm tty is fixed, the X tty has to be fixed too.

We can do "all ttys fixed" or "all ttys dynamic", an attempt to do both
gives us the bug we currently have.

Scott
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