Re: gdm console login

[Bob Doolittle <Robert Doolittle Sun COM>]

Where something like this becomes useful is when you want
a quick login and do something without the overhead of firing
up the entire desktop (or maybe something in the
environment - e.g. a hung NFS mount, prevents the entire desktop
from starting up properly).

It's sometimes helpful to quickly login, fix a problem with the
system or check something, and log out.

-Bob

George wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 04:00:24PM -0500, Brian Cameron wrote:
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> > George, if you have any suggestions, that would be useful.
> >    
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> My suggestion is to not implement such a feature.  And even if it is
> implemented it should not be turned on in default setup.  Imagine your
> grandmother clicking on the wrong thing and getting console login.
>
> It is a TOTALLY USELESS feature anyway.  The only person who would at any
> point actually want to login only on the console is someone who is technically
> capable, and for those people Ctrl-Alt-F1 should work wonders with NO need to
> add more code to gdm.  Further I have no clue why someone would actually want
> to use this instead of the rescue xterm login.  If people are worried about
> the memory consumption of an X server while they're logged in, then they
> really shouldn't be using GDM (or any other graphical login) to begin with.
> I'm sure you could probably count on your fingers the number of people who
> would actually use this feature.
>
> My policy for these requests was to quietly ignore them as total crack that
> should not go into gdm.
>
> Jiri
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