[NTLUG:Discuss] Virtual consoles and X

[Richard Wolfe]

Thanks for all the replies. I did indeed discover that if I had
X start in runlevel 3 (so that it automatically comes up when
the machine boots), it seems to run at tty7. From there, I can
ctrl-alt-tab to other consoles and back to tty7 with no problems
(i.e., the GUI is still running). Though the other text consoles
are kind of wonky when I do that (flashing green "D" at bottom
of screen until you scroll past it, and every lowercase "t" is
malformed!), it works well enough for my purposes.

Thanks again,
Richard


--- MadHat <madhat at unspecific.com> wrote:
> 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.
> 
> -- 
> MadHat at Unspecific.com
> `But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
> `Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad
> here...'
>    -- Lewis Carroll - _Alice's_Adventures_in_Wonderland_
> 
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