Re: gdm console login

[Joao Pedro Clemente <jpcl rnl ist utl pt>]

I haven't read the whole thread, but I thing I've undertood it enough to
pu my 2 cents:

Bob: If you can live with the overhead of having gdm (wich needs the
"power-hungry" X running) you could live with the "overhead" of
starting a light desktop
like the default "twm" (it's twm, right?) wich will get you the xterm.

On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Bob Doolittle wrote:

> 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:
> >
> >
> >>George, if you have any suggestions, that would be useful.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >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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