Hi,
On 05/05/2014 05:45 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2014-05-05 12:34 (GMT+0200) Lennart Poettering composed:
> Felix Miata wrote:
>> How can I get it to go there and stay there? When starting F21 in
>> multi-user, logging in on tty3 and running startx, KDE shows up on
>> tty3, where, as it's currently broken[1], it needs to be killed to
>> escape it. Ctrl-Alt-BS fails to kill it (in spite of xorg.con*
>> entries intended that Ctrl-Alt-BS be enabled for that purpose), and
>> switching to tty3 is unavailable to use Ctrl-C to kill it as can be
>> done when started from tty3 but running on tty7. The only way out is
>> logging in somewhere else, or CAD. This shouldn't be.
>> [1]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1092852
> To get the device permissions right startx can only "upgrade" a text
> session to a graphical one,
There is a relatively recent change, as it used to be that the first X instance would
always start on tty7 no matter how started. I still have a DM running there if in
graphical target.
What is this permissions business? IOW, what search terms would lead me to an explanation
of the changes, or at least a non-simplistic but not overly detailed why they occurred?
> it cannot open a new VT.
Why?
Part of the reasons are explained here:
http://hansdegoede.livejournal.com/14268.html
Note that this only is valid from F-21 on-wards, but it is strongly
related to why it cannot be done either in F-20.
Regards,
Hans