From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 26 8: 8:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 898A637B4B1 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 08:08:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail15.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.215]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B23543E6E for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 08:08:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 25017 invoked from network); 26 Sep 2002 15:08:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail15.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 26 Sep 2002 15:08:40 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g8QF8dBv091918; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 11:08:39 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20020926144432.GA33089@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 11:08:41 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Steve Kargl Subject: Re: ttys patch - any objections? Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, Kenneth Culver , Mark Murray Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 26-Sep-2002 Steve Kargl wrote: > On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 02:50:20PM +0100, Mark Murray wrote: >> > This seems a lot like personal preferance to me, I for one don't like a >> > lot of tty's, because running getty on a bunch of ttys that I'm not going >> > to use is a waste of ram.... I usually keep F1-F3 as ttys, and make F4 run >> > kdm. I know I don't really have a say, but I'm sure everyone has his or >> > her own preference. >> >> Sure! That is why I'm doing a straw poll. If more people seem to like this, >> I'll commit it. If I get shouted down, I'll keep it as a local hack. >> > > I agree with Ken that this is a personal preference > thingie. I have X tied to F8. There is no real reason > for this choice other than inertia. I suspect people who use > mergemaster won't have a problem with your proposed change; > either they'll accept your change during the merge or keep > their current setting. New installs on machines don't get to choose this change or not. They just install a machine and now Alt-F9 doesn't get to X anymore. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message