X on tty1 in Rawhide/F10

Dan Nicholson dbn.lists at gmail.com
Tue Oct 28 14:24:10 UTC 2008


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, and everything is the same as it always was with getty on
tty1-6. If you then run startx, it will start on tty7. In rc 5, X is
started on tty1 and getty is not. That's all there is to it.

--
Dan




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