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Date:      Thu, 26 Sep 2002 11:08:41 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, Kenneth Culver <culverk@yumyumyum.org>, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
Subject:   Re: ttys patch - any objections?
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20020926110841.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020926144432.GA33089@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>

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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.

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