From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MfSle-0008Up-1Y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 06:10:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7BF04E03F8; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 06:10:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wlym.com (wlym.com [66.135.63.43]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A6E8E03F8 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 06:10:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ccs.covici.com (pool-70-109-54-11.clppva.fios.verizon.net [70.109.54.11]) (authenticated bits=128) by wlym.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id n7O6Aq1g025595 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 01:10:55 -0500 Received: from ccs.covici.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ccs.covici.com (8.14.3/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n7O6AnSF029590 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 02:10:52 -0400 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg uses vt8 instead of vt7 after logging out of gnome In-reply-to: <20090824063439.2cf3956c@mpismpirikos.tolises.homeunix.org> References: <20090824053226.2532ae75@mpismpirikos.tolises.homeunix.org> <1251081349.9788.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20090824063439.2cf3956c@mpismpirikos.tolises.homeunix.org> Comments: In-reply-to Yiannis message dated "Mon, 24 Aug 2009 06:34:39 +0300." X-Mailer: MH-E 8.2; nmh 1.3; GNU Emacs 23.1.1 Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 02:10:49 -0400 Message-ID: <29589.1251094249@ccs.covici.com> From: covici@ccs.covici.com Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Archives-Salt: fd982117-29b1-4e83-b7fe-e63078a8da3a X-Archives-Hash: 4a9fca1f48e12682adba7c7df1b9f244 Yiannis wrote: > On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:35:49 -0500 > Lance Lassetter 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? -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici@ccs.covici.com