Bug#689746: base: GUI switches from tty7, tty8 and tty9

[Josh Triplett]

On Sun, 24 Feb 2013 01:01:19 +0100 Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org> wrote:
> Le samedi 23 février 2013 à 16:27 +0100, Julien Cristau a écrit : 
> > Control: reassign -1 gdm3
> > Control: tag -1 moreinfo
> > 
> > > After logging into the GUI on tty7 and logging out the GUI switches to tty8.
> > > After logging into the GUI on tty8 and logging out the GUI switches to tty9.
> > > After logging into the GUI on tty9 and logging out the GUI switches to tty8.
> > > The GUI switches from tty8 to tty9 and vise versa after logging out.
> > 
> > Why is that a problem?
> 
> You might as well reassign the bug to the kernel or X, or whatever. I
> have already verified twice that the GDM code for selecting the TTY is
> correct; it is the kernel that reports this or that TTY as being used.
> 
> And frankly, as Julien mentioned, there is zero functional impact on
> users, so I fail to see why anyone should care.

There's one very obvious functional impact: it makes it difficult to
switch back to the GUI VT after switching to the console.  A user hits
Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get to the text console, does whatever they needed to do
there, and then has to go searching across Ctrl-Alt-F{7,8,9} to find the
GUI.

- Josh Triplett