Re: gdm console login

[Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron Sun COM>]

Hai:

Please file a bug in bugzilla about this issue and I'll fix this issue
by adding a command-line argument to gdmflexiserver.

Brian

> > [...]
> > As you've said, this isn't really an option for the _users_ who want the
> > graphical login.  It's for the _admin_ who wants to do something quickly,
> > and for whatever reason doesn't want to or cannot use xterm.  That doesn't
> > mean the admin should not run gdm on their user's system, because they don't
> > want a graphical login.
>
> I'm fully agree. For example I have application that configures the
> system, but it can not run together with X. So such console login
> would be perfect solution instead of run-level change.
> The power of the feature is not that you can get console quickly, but
> that you can shutdown X temporary.
>
> --
> Zaar