On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 14:33 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
Brian Wheeler wrote:
>
> The 7th is "nobody should care what tty X is on". Indeed, why are
> people so upset that it has changed? Its not an argument for or
> against, its an argument that this thread shouldn't be taking place at
> all.
How do you get back once you have switched to a text vt?
Alt-F1
or
chvt `ps -ef | perl -ne "if(m/Xorg/) { m/tty(\d+)/; print \$1; last;}"`
:)
> Compatibility isn't a driving priority, especially for
something that's
> low-level and used primarily by those who've been around for a long
> time...
Unless you'd like to keep those long time users.
Well, I'm a long time user and I don't see what the big deal is. There
are several people on this list which seem to announce that "<insert
change here> is the one that's going to drive long time users away"
and/or "time to look for a new distribution" semi-regularly... yet they
(long time users) are still here.
Brian
/Anyone else miss the threads when ESR was doing the shed painting?
/Me neither.