[ale] Changing the default tty that XFree86 starts on?

Christopher Bergeron christopher at bergeron.com
Wed Jul 21 22:50:40 EDT 2004


Ok, just in case anyone was interested, I was able to increase the
number of gettys to 10 by editing the inittab file (and adding
c7-c10:2345: entrys [based on slackware distro, other distros might call
them something different]).  However, one gotcha here is that you also
have to make sure that your /etc/securetty has entry's for tty7, tty8,
tty9, tty10, tty11 and tty12.

I'm still not sure how to tell X what tty to start up on.  Does anyone
have any ideas?

Thanks!
-CB



Christopher Bergeron wrote:

> Does anyone know which conf file determines what tty XFree86 will 
> start on?  On my machine it's tty6, but I'd like to change it to a 
> different one.
>
> Also, out of curiosity, how many tty's can I have on my machine?  I 
> have 12 Function keys, and I think it might be pretty sexy to have 
> about 10 or 12 gettys listening on each one.
>
> Does anyone where I'd change that too?  I have a feeling it's 
> /etc/inittab, so I'm going to go try changing that now.
>
>
>
> Thanks!
> -CB
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