On Sun,12.Apr.09, 14:35:28, Sven Joachim wrote: > > If I read the comments right gdm will allocate VT 7 to X11 (don't > > know what happens if VT 7 is already taken by getty or so). > > I don't use gdm, but this behavior seems broken to me. Why can't it > just use the first available VT by default, like the X server does by > itself?
Because it's unpredictable (just guessing)? Maybe I misunderstood the comment. Here is the full quote: ,----[ from /usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf ] | # Automatic VT allocation. Right now only works on Linux. This way we force | # X to use specific vts. Turn VTAllocation to false if this is causing | # problems. | FirstVT=7 | VTAllocation=true `---- Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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