X on tty1 in Rawhide/F10

Dan Horák dan at danny.cz
Tue Oct 28 14:57:27 UTC 2008


Dmitry Butskoy píše v Út 28. 10. 2008 v 17:49 +0300:
> Dan Nicholson wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 6:55 AM, Dmitry Butskoy <buc at odusz.so-cdu.ru> wrote:
> >   
> >> Chuck Anderson wrote:
> >>     
> >>> The system boots up in tty1 first.  Having X change to tty7 is a VT
> >>> change, hence flicker and delay.
> >>>
> >>>       
> >> Well,
> >>
> >> Is it possible for users who do not use "graphical boot" (there are such
> >> users...), use "traditional" tty7 instead?
> >>
> >> IOW, if X is already running, leave it on tty1, else invoke it on tty7. If
> >> tty1 is already busy (by X), do not invoke mingetty on it.
> >>     
> >
> > Users who do not want a graphical boot set rc 3 as their default
> > runlevel,
> 
> Not all, I do not use graphical boot and set rc 5 ;)
> 
> Though I boot my desktop (==workstation) approximately once in month... 
> (It explains why I do not need neither graphical, nor fastest boot...)
> 
> >  and everything is the same as it always was with getty on
> > tty1-6. If you then run startx, it will start on tty7.
> 
> Well, if I change the "consoles/X" order in upstart, then gdm will 
> appear at tty7 as before?
> 

AFAIK there was/is a some code in GDM that explicitly passed the "vt 7"
option to the X server. It was not done in upstart on the "init" level.


		Dan





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