From owner-freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Sat Sep 3 12:45:44 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 851ECBCEF0C for ; Sat, 3 Sep 2016 12:45:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Scoobi_doo@yahoo.com) Received: from nm26-vm0.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com (nm26-vm0.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com [98.139.213.74]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3F1C8F41 for ; Sat, 3 Sep 2016 12:45:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Scoobi_doo@yahoo.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s2048; t=1472906737; bh=2hbZivEobZHJRv+KS2SUPxHu9nCdR/u4q1AwiXEnKNM=; h=Subject:To:References:Cc:From:Date:In-Reply-To:From:Subject; b=p9/W62QS+743rrVLgVEUPRpuJo4gfkizErE5cf+A8DH7ASJqBIIi37iSn+vzbULS5P2vi8heJG+RJgmKas5P4eMdnUwTmy/1ueP8uXxFE4/8OhauvaTyQxBOLxu+F1MlsXZQd7fueWBMMdNVVpgk/T+OMQZ1lOAbXbwcO9Jo2f4m6oCJU1lqBUYLnvhLADhlIoY40kFlsNapd0p66BunFrgc76+FS/US4qegajns1fIlV5MpoLoziknuNvgpOBUXb+7gvqL0gMRUU4CODJJyH0v0ZccMIRdOGgaQYxF3nukUqVv7Opz96M5sDnQr2kjdcfeQhy1rGqWmGSi/0rUgJw== Received: from [66.196.81.172] by nm26.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 03 Sep 2016 12:45:37 -0000 Received: from [98.139.213.15] by tm18.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 03 Sep 2016 12:45:37 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp115.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 03 Sep 2016 12:45:37 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 805019.20277.bm@smtp115.mail.bf1.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: BJJVdUEVM1m__6inFnkc4V8emR0rtxGt_8utFnqNizFse9M I0ObCpToh9AhIDNHLoK5mlGPt3gmzlA91DwYmlpNIMmz6974ZXjLB_VjkX7s qiEG3Hm.tho3h8oi.NeWI8U29GmC1nwKZIY.XhRgtK6268W0_tvkEk8kcfWa GneyDw6UI7GDyYJCz9YdRhkKGr1kpPIloAp0v4RXtAVsPIg63xcJZkxinuZ4 BVxa.VJNmKFWCQP2qE4ldFqMoOxD9P7rwEfYg3h5g9cmqJxuAO6rB56d3y6O jVbIriPaOX.qjlFMjjQoKWvqG6EbwPD9fhyTxG6.iZr0w3U6Q9MLKGSeY_74 DtpZdHhHVeRqt5CW7OsJiSLMhaCGpzUVSyQcfLIYW8JkA_eMbrZWO2x7uU9C xRh9Zstja6s8Kt3q8gt864bb3N7HLJMDIytsbJsxPdSFIC.uy2fiTsjubPov RwwgEvU5CFyYcRgGf933YuxHbMrhdHaacimZewhXWOctwerJJVUSpIvS9M.S 9I1woN_l5V3wx020f7PlW1yejVn47zaxLubHVz1nsHQEGR38- X-Yahoo-SMTP: 9sPoSQ2swBBlERuQ.0vs8XLc_MeClW0- Subject: Re: Console only boot option To: gljennjohn@gmail.com References: <20160902091350.5a5d69ce@ernst.home> Cc: freebsd-x11 From: Anthony Jenkins Message-ID: Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2016 08:45:36 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160902091350.5a5d69ce@ernst.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2016 12:45:44 -0000 On 09/02/16 03:13, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > On Thu, 1 Sep 2016 11:22:23 -0400 > Anthony Jenkins via freebsd-x11 wrote: > >> I have a patch against base that adds an option "Console" to the Boot >> Options sub-menu to prevent a GUI desktop port from being started: >> >> 1. Back to Main Menu [Backspace] >> 2. Load System Defaults >> >> Boot Options: >> 3. Safe Mode... Off >> 4. Single User. Off >> 5. Verbose..... off >> 6. Console..... off >> >> >> When set to "On", a kernel environment variable "boot_console" is set to >> "YES"; else "boot_console" is unset. A GUI desktop startup script in >> ${LOCALBASE}/etc/rc.d/ should read this variable and, if set, should >> >> * Ignore a command to start the GUI >> * Unset "boot_console" (this allows one to manually start the GUI >> after initial boot). >> >> I'm open to suggestions about semantics to make this functionality >> clearer (e.g. "Console..... On" is not intuitive). >> > Text[-only] Console perhaps? Or Non-GUI Console? Good ideas... I like "Text only" or "Console only", or I can negate the option and make it "GUI" which would be "On" by default; users would turn it "off" to disable GUI desktop startup. My 2 cents, Anthony