[gentoo-user] Xorg uses vt8 instead of vt7 after logging out of gnome

[gentoo-user] Xorg uses vt8 instead of vt7 after logging out of gnome

[Yiannis]

Hello,

I have noticed this strange behavior on my gentoo box. After logging
out of gnome, gdm and the subsequent gnome session use vt8 instead of
vt7(which was used till that time). All following sessions continue
using vt8.
Has anybody else noticed such behavior?

Regards

Yiannis

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg uses vt8 instead of vt7 after logging out of gnome

[Lance Lassetter]

On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 05:32 +0300, Yiannis wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have noticed this strange behavior on my gentoo box. After logging
> out of gnome, gdm and the subsequent gnome session use vt8 instead of
> vt7(which was used till that time). All following sessions continue
> using vt8.
> Has anybody else noticed such behavior?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Yiannis
> 
Yep.  vt7 to login then switched to vt8 after logging in.  So if you
ctrl+alt+f1 you get console tty1 and if at the gdm screen you're still
at vt7.  If you log in then instead of ctrl+alt+vt7 to get back into
gnome you ctrl+alt+vt8.

Dunno why :)  Used to be standard vt7 and vt8 was used for launching
another session of X.

Lance

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg uses vt8 instead of vt7 after logging out of gnome

[Yiannis]

On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:35:49 -0500
Lance Lassetter <lance@hometeal.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 05:32 +0300, Yiannis wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have noticed this strange behavior on my gentoo box. After logging
> > out of gnome, gdm and the subsequent gnome session use vt8 instead
> > of vt7(which was used till that time). All following sessions
> > continue using vt8.
> > Has anybody else noticed such behavior?
> > 
> > Regards
> > 
> > Yiannis
> > 
> Yep.  vt7 to login then switched to vt8 after logging in.  So if you
> ctrl+alt+f1 you get console tty1 and if at the gdm screen you're still
> at vt7.  If you log in then instead of ctrl+alt+vt7 to get back into
> gnome you ctrl+alt+vt8.
> 
> Dunno why :)  Used to be standard vt7 and vt8 was used for launching
> another session of X.
> 
> Lance
> 

Appending:
0=Standard vt7
in /etc/X11/gdm/custom.conf did the trick.

Should have googled better

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg uses vt8 instead of vt7 after logging out of gnome

[covici]

Yiannis <yiannis@tolises.homeunix.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:35:49 -0500
> Lance Lassetter <lance@hometeal.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 05:32 +0300, Yiannis wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > I have noticed this strange behavior on my gentoo box. After logging
> > > out of gnome, gdm and the subsequent gnome session use vt8 instead
> > > of vt7(which was used till that time). All following sessions
> > > continue using vt8.
> > > Has anybody else noticed such behavior?
> > > 
> > > Regards
> > > 
> > > Yiannis
> > > 
> > Yep.  vt7 to login then switched to vt8 after logging in.  So if you
> > ctrl+alt+f1 you get console tty1 and if at the gdm screen you're still
> > at vt7.  If you log in then instead of ctrl+alt+vt7 to get back into
> > gnome you ctrl+alt+vt8.
> > 
> > Dunno why :)  Used to be standard vt7 and vt8 was used for launching
> > another session of X.
> > 
> > Lance
> > 
> 
> Appending:
> 0=Standard vt7
> in /etc/X11/gdm/custom.conf did the trick.
> 
> Should have googled better
> 

I have a similar problem -- with more recent versions of gdm, gdm tries
to take ovver vt7 even though it is in use by a login prompt -- I
actually have 11 virtual consoles active.  I wonder if this solution
would prevent this behavior?

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