[gentoo-user] Re: XWindow appearing in a non-graphical tty. A bug or feature?

[Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>]

On 2020-12-18, gevisz <gevisz@gmail.com> wrote:

> During the last 22 years, I got used to the setting
> when the XWindow system appeared on one of
> the "graphical" virtual terminals, mostly on tty6 or tty7.
>
> However, after installing a new Gentoo system with
> gentoo-kernel, I found out that the XWindow system
> started to appear in the same tty, where I started it
> using the startx command, shadowing all that was
> typed there including the messages from the xorg-server.
>
> So, I just wonder: "Is it a bug or a feature?"

IIRC, this happened as part of the switch to running the X server as a
normal user instead of as root. As a normal user, you only "own" the
tty you logged in on, so that's the one used by X.

> And where exactly can one configure it?

I assume that if you switch back to running X as root, you get the old
behavior of the X server running on tty6/7/whatever. I don't know if
there's a way to get that behavior while still running non-root X.

--
Grant