[PATCH RFC] xfree86: add option -notty to prevent VT allocation

Samuel Thibault sthibault at debian.org
Tue Jan 8 03:43:20 PST 2013


Hello,

Peter Hutterer, le Tue 08 Jan 2013 17:05:16 +1000, a écrit :
> Provided the driver permits it, Xorg -notty will not create a VT on startup.
> Currently this driver list includes dummy and qxl only.

I'd rather call it -novt, just like -novtswitch, -sharevts, vtXX.
Only the -keeptty option is really at the tty level, not the VT.

> This seems to do the job, it restores the original behaviour by default, but
> started with -notty the server skips the VT allocation provided all drivers
> set HW_SKIP_CONSOLE. 

Indeed, it looks fine for me.

Samuel


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