Bug 479510

There's a patch from March 12, 2009 in gdm:
- Don't force X server on active vt more than once

gdm-2.24.0-force-active-vt.patch:

Index: gdm-2.24.0-force-active-vt.patch
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/pkgs/rpms/gdm/devel/gdm-2.24.0-force-active-vt.patch,v
retrieving revision 1.1
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -r1.1 -r1.2
--- gdm-2.24.0-force-active-vt.patch 15 Oct 2008 21:42:34 -0000 1.1
+++ gdm-2.24.0-force-active-vt.patch 12 Mar 2009 14:43:36 -0000 1.2
@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@
diff -ur gdm-2.24.0/daemon/gdm-static-display.c new/daemon/gdm-static-display.c
--- gdm-2.24.0/daemon/gdm-static-display.c 2008-07-10 11:07:42.000000000 
-0400
+++ new/daemon/gdm-static-display.c 2008-10-15 16:24:38.000000000 -0400
-@@ -86,10 +86,26 @@
+@@ -86,10 +86,27 @@
}

static gboolean
@@ -357,8 +357,9 @@

+ if (triggered_to_force_display_on_active_vt ()) {
+ g_object_set (display, "force-active-vt", TRUE, NULL);
++ } else {
++ g_object_set (display, "force-active-vt", FALSE, NULL);
+ }
-+
GDM_DISPLAY_CLASS (gdm_static_display_parent_class)->manage (display);

return TRUE;
=====================================================================

Does that fix the situation for you?

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(In reply to comment #1)
> There's a patch from March 12, 2009 in gdm:
> - Don't force X server on active vt more than once
> 
> Does that fix the situation for you?

I don't think so, because the X server is forced to active vt at least for the first time. Either plymouth must be able to not create the /var/spool/gdm/force-display-on-active-vt file or gdm must be able to ignore it. The first option is preferred.

I don't have a problem adding a plymouth:no-fade command line option or similar to disable the transition.

It really depends on what can be implemented in plymouth. Me as a user would prefer some config file, where the transition could be enabled/disabled and would survive updates of any component, but that's probably not implementable due the "initrd" nature. Other option could be to check whether the kernel options line contains the "rhgb" string and do the transition only when it is present.

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