On Sun 22 Nov 2015 at 08:16:50 -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Felix writes: > > IIRC this change has to do with systemd > > It happens even when not using Systemd.
Possibly something to do accomodating systemd-shim. >From the xinit changelog; * 10-startx-Under-Linux-start-X-on-the-current-VT.patch, 11-startx-Pass-vtX-as-long-as-the-user-did-not-specify-.patch: By default start the server on the current VT, this is necessary to avoid logind to see the startx session as inactive (Closes: #743015 LP: #1247484)