Bug 62458
Summary: | KDM "Console Login" potentially confusing to return to KDM | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Public Beta | Reporter: | Warren Togami <wtogami> |
Component: | kdebase | Assignee: | wdovlrrw <brosenkr> |
Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Ben Levenson <benl> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | skipjack-beta1 | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
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Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |
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Last Closed: | 2002-04-21 09:42:46 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
Warren Togami
2002-04-01 08:07:50 UTC
We can't add another dialog at this time because it would break translations. A message educating someone about virtual terminals in English is useless to someone who doesn't understand the language. Also, hardcoding CTRL-ALT-F7 is a bad idea; many people change their inittab to get X on a different VT (e.g. I use 11 textmode terminals and X in the 12th), others tail -f /var/log/messages >/dev/tty7 and get X on 8 etc. A dialog informing the user about returning to X would make sense in any case. I'd suggest something along the lines of 'This will kill your X session. If you just want to access a virtual terminal without killing X, press CTRL-ALT-F1 and CTRL-ALT-Whatever to return to X. If you really want to kill X, you can return by typing "init 5".' Please resend your request to http://bugs.kde.org/, that's the only way to get it into base CVS (which in turn is the only way to get any mmessages translated). Closing WONTFIX for now because of the translation issue, this doesn't mean it won't ever happen. > 'This will kill your X session. If you just want to
> access a virtual terminal without killing X, press
> CTRL-ALT-F1 and CTRL-ALT-Whatever to return to X.
> If you really want to kill X, you can return by
> typing "init 5".'
I was thinking about parsing inittab to find the X VT, but I now realize there
might be cases where that may be problematic. Can you think of any such
cases? I can't at the moment.
I will work on this, what deadline do I have to get this into KDE CVS to be
included in Red Hat final?
There is no way to get it in the final of the next version. KDE 3.0 has been released (so far to packagers only), so we won't update to CVS snapshots anymore. I'm expecting KDE 3.1 in time for the release beyond this one, though - so if you can get it in by then, it'll be in 7.4/8.0/Linux XP or whatever the release will be called. I just had an idea. Why doesn't it use chvt rather than killing X permanently? This seems proper. If this is too late I understand. |