Dan Nicholson wrote:
Why is it significant what tty any program runs on? Isn't the
assumption that getty will be on tty1 just as faulty as the assumption
X will be on tty7?
It has been that way for a *long* time. When something goes wrong I
can't fix in X11 usually hit "Ctrl-Alt-F1" to get the login prompt, like
*lots* of other people I assume. That suddenly stops working. Be
prepared for lots of people wondering where the text console is gone to.
cheers,
Gerd