From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Oct 26 23:50: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B78437B4CF for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 23:50:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id XAA68489; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 23:50:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 23:50:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200010270650.XAA68489@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Doug Barton Subject: Re: misc/22332: request to add more active ttys by default Reply-To: Doug Barton Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR misc/22332; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Doug Barton To: rick@kiwi-computer.com Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: misc/22332: request to add more active ttys by default Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 23:41:31 -0700 rick@kiwi-computer.com wrote: > Most (nearly all??) keyboards with Function keys have F1-F12. By > default ttys(5) is setup for F1-F8 as virtual terminals and uses F9 > for X/xdm. I propose adding the other three as virtual terminals, > moving X down to F12. In my totally unofficial opinion, having 8 virtual terminals is twice too many for most people. I can't imagine a user sophisticated enough to "need" 24 tty's who isn't also smart enough to take the 3.5 seconds to edit /etc/ttys and HUP init. Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message