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[david]

On Thursday 11 September 2008 6:13:10 pm Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
> It would appear that on Sep 11, Derek Broughton did say:
> > Knapp wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>
> > >
> > > wrote:
> > >> Sorry, but if you want to use the system in decidedly non-standard
> > >> ways, and don't understand how to keep your login console separate
> > >> from the system console, I can't say I have a whole lot of sympathy.
> > >
> > > A lack of sympathy often reflexes a genetic variation that you
> > > inherited. People with this variation often have trouble keeping
> > > sexual partners and tend to fail at marriages.
> > > Joke right? :-)
> >
> > Well, I never had trouble _keeping_ partners, it was getting them...  But
> > I've been married for almost 22 years, thanks :-)
> >
> > > Really though, have you never gotten in over your head while learning
> > > a new system?
> >
> > Absolutely, but this isn't someone learning a new system - it certainly
> > smacks of someone coercing Ubuntu into a very _old_ form.  Starting X
> > from your console using startx went out of fashion about a decade ago. 
> > Ubuntu isn't intended to have X started out of somebody's console, so I
> > just don't like to see people complaining about getting console messages
> > on a terminal that Ubuntu wouldn't have used.  If he'd been using Ubuntu
> > as it was intended, he wouldn't have had an issue (and probably would
> > never even have noticed)
>
> Well I thought linux was about being able to choose...
>
> And since there used to be a traditional method of selecting gui vs
> non-gui login  by setting id:3:initdefault: or id:5:initdefault: in
> the now defunct /etc/inittab I felt like Kubuntu was trying to
> coerce me into using my pc someone elses way... Though I must
> say that at least Kubuntu still includes a working startx
> script And a mechanizim for returning to the login method I
> prefer THANK YOU Kubuntu!
>
> But even If I were using the gui login I'd still want to
> access the consoles via <alt>+<ctrl>+<F[1-6]> when planning to
> run a root shell to use apt-get or visudo or some such. So I
> would have still noticed it...
>
> Please don't misunderstand me though Derek, I'm not
> complaining that you seam to feel just as strongly that I
> should just use the gui login as I do that the console login
> and startx should still be a personal choice... In fact I'd
> like to applaud you! You _do_ evidently feel strongly that I
> shouldn't still be using startx, and yet you very kindly
> included two possible solutions in your original reply.
>
> for this I can only say:
>
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> It takes a great man to be kind to those he disagrees with...

We should cut him some slack. He's just having a bad hair day in a place where 
the sun don't shine. ;-)


-- 
David M.