X on tty1 in Rawhide/F10

Casey Dahlin cdahlin at redhat.com
Tue Oct 28 17:54:27 UTC 2008


Dmitry Butskoy wrote:
> 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?
>
>
> ~buc
>
Should be.

--CJD




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