Comment 9 for bug 884434

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Egmont Koblinger (egmont-gmail) wrote :

What if the user accidentally presses one of Ctrl+Alt+F8 - F12? No getty is running there, still the same message would be equally desired. I think this shouldn't be getty's task, but a one-time boot script should send this message to the first 12 (or all the 63) vts.

Re the proposed text in comment 4: IMHO it's reasonable to assume that a user doesn't know anything about text mode consoles and the switching keys, but we shouldn't assume it's the first time the user sees a computer in their life. "hold down Alt while pressing F7" should be simply "press Alt+F7".