From: Diego Nicola Barbato <dnbarbato@posteo.de>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 35493@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#35493] [PATCH 1/3] gnu: slim: Allow customisation of Xorg display.
Date: Wed, 08 May 2019 22:12:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mujwpuy6.fsf@GlaDOS.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v9ylz1bd.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Wed, 08 May 2019 12:29:42 +0200")
Hello,
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> Hi,
>
> Diego Nicola Barbato <dnbarbato@posteo.de> skribis:
>
>> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
> [...]
>
>>> Perhaps a simple fix is, when there’s only one server launched, to have
>>> the Shepherd service provide both ‘xorg-server-vtN’ and ‘xorg-server’.
>>> Or to special-case vt7 such that the service for vt7 provides both
>>> ‘xorg-server’ and ‘xorg-server-vt7’.
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>
>> How about changing the default value of vt to #f and having the Shepherd
>> service provide ‘xorg-server-vtN’ only if vt is set to "vtN" and
>> ‘xorg-server’ otherwise. That way the name of the default Shepherd
>> service would not change.
>
> I think I would prefer special-casing vt7, as shown below. That way the
> ‘vt’ field would always be a string, which looks more consistent to me.
>
> Thoughts?
I have no strong feelings either way. If it is OK that 'herd status'
displays 'xorg-server-vt7' instead of 'xorg-server' we can go for the
special-casing approach.
Regards,
Diego
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-08 20:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-29 18:19 [bug#35493] [PATCH 0/3] Allow multiple SLiM services Diego Nicola Barbato
2019-04-29 18:20 ` [bug#35493] [PATCH 1/3] gnu: slim: Allow customisation of Xorg display Diego Nicola Barbato
2019-05-06 8:35 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-05-06 11:31 ` Diego Nicola Barbato
2019-05-07 13:55 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-05-07 21:54 ` Diego Nicola Barbato
2019-05-08 10:29 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-05-08 20:12 ` Diego Nicola Barbato [this message]
2019-05-09 10:19 ` bug#35493: " Ludovic Courtès
2019-04-29 18:20 ` [bug#35493] [PATCH 2/3] services: slim: Allow SLiM to be started on multiple ttys Diego Nicola Barbato
2019-04-29 18:20 ` [bug#35493] [PATCH 3/3] doc: Document 'display' and 'vt' fields of 'slim-configuration' Diego Nicola Barbato
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