Comment 3 for bug 884434

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Scott Ritchie (scottritchie) wrote :

So, some complications:

1) Getty doesn't currently use gettext for translations, but this shouldn't be a problem
2) The key sequence needed to escape isn't always ctrl+alt+f7, only usually so. Occasionally the desktop session is on a different VT.
3) Getty shows this text on server console logins, which are not useful for this change since there is no desktop.
4) Getty's /etc/issue text is a static file only read once during boot, and we may need this text to be dynamic. It supports variable substitution, however, the text may be output before the desktuserop user actually logs in.

The right thing to do would be to determine if a desktop vt exists (whether logged in or not), and then display the text pointing to ctrl+alt+f-whatever based on that VT. However, if getty comes up first, then we may very well have to output this text before there is a desktop session on a VT at all.