gdm 2.24.0

[Patryk Zawadzki]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 2:56 AM, Tomasz Pala <gotar at polanet.pl> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 14:16:15 +0200, Patryk Zawadzki wrote:
>>>> >> - force Xorg to use a certain tty (there used to be a hack in GDM 2.20
>>>> >> for this as at this time Xorg did not have vte detection of its own,
>>> No? Really? Damn, that must have been a miracle it worked for me for more
>>> than 10 years...
>> Xorg devs prefer if we let Xorg pick the vte. It worked for you
>> because back then Xorg did not do this and gdm forced vte9.
> I don't use *dm much, but XFree86, X11 and now Xorg used to allocate
> first free VT since always I think.

Yes but it does so in a pretty naive way. As I mentioned in this
thread, it used to cause problems for all distros (and thus around gdm
2.2 the FirstVT option was introduced).

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Patryk Zawadzki