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

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Wednesday 21 July 2004 11:09 pm, Michael Still wrote:
> X should just grab the next available free tty. Start all your gettys
> then fire up X and it should grab what's left.

Correct.  Of course, if you configure 12 ttys, it becomes tricky to switch to 
tty13.  So You might consider not running getty on one of your ttys.  If you 
don't run one on tty1 then X will be on tty1 and the other ttys will all be 
on ctrl-alt-f[2-12]

Michael

> On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 10:30pm, 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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