Reasons to preseve X on tty7

[Bill Nottingham]

Les Mikesell (lesmikesell at gmail.com) said: 
>> It's still problematic in that whichever vt you run telinit from will
>> get gdm, which may not be tty1. (Also, it's just getting a little complex
>> overall.)
>
> What happens if you aren't on a vt at all (ssh, remote X, vncserver,  
> freenx, etc.?).

It's started by init, which is on /dev/console, which maps (more or less)
to tty0, 'the current tty'. So it will start on whichever VT happens
to be focused at the time.

Bill