[NTLUG:Discuss] Virtual consoles and X

[MadHat]

On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 15:03, Lance Simmons wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 02:52:58PM -0500, MadHat wrote:
> > 
> > You know that alt-F1 takes you back to the tty1, not X.  What you
> > should see is the X logs.  By default on RedHat, you should alt-F8 to
> > go back to the GUI X once you have traveled back to a TTY.  
> 
> adding
>  
>   alias startx="startx &> /dev/null & exit"
> 
> to .bashrc will close tty1 when you start your X session.  If you like
> to move back and forth between X and the TTYs, this opens up one more.

I have xinit as 'xinit > ~/X_log 2>&1 &'
So that I have a log of X and am still logged in.
But I also have syslog logging everything to tty8 and X on tty7.

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