Re: SEUL: SEUL duplicating efforts?

[Cyberdyn <cyberdyn@seul.org>]

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On 14-Feb-98 Donovan Rebbechi wrote:
- ->> The right thing to do is allowing the user to start X from the command
- ->> line but making it easy to switch to XDM once he knows X works.  
- -> 
- -> yep.

Nope.  There is *no* reason for a console environment to be the users first
impression of SEUL outside of not wanting X or using some off the wall
hardware, in which case s/he probably knows not to use X to begin with.

- ->> We
- ->> must insure he knows how to set up XDM and how to return to command
- ->> line.  

Easily done in XDM itself.

- ->> Also have a couple of gettys started even in XDM mode.  In that mode
- ->> XDM will restart another server if you use CTRL-ALT-Backspace so you
- ->> can't use it for going out of X.  In contrast you can use CTRL-ALT-F1
- ->> to go char mode and kill xdm from it if you a getty started.

I don't follow you with this.  CTRL-ALT-BS restarts the same X server.


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E-Mail: Cyberdyn@seul.org       Date: 14-Feb-98        Time: 18:58:06
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