X on tty1 in Rawhide/F10

Dmitry Butskoy buc at odusz.so-cdu.ru
Tue Oct 28 14:49:35 UTC 2008


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




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