Comment 32 for bug 396226
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| Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote Re: [Bug 396226] Re: GDM logs out after some minutes of typing on the keyboard | #32 |
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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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