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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: XWindow appearing in a non-graphical tty. A bug or feature?
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2020 10:07:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <rrkcbu$13nn$1@ciao.gmane.io> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+t6X7djur+_NA1p=1SUkVHJSxzmsK7WEU8vXsTwuq66o80kFg@mail.gmail.com>

On 18/12/2020 18:04, gevisz 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?"
> 
> And where exactly can one configure it?

Are you using systemd? In contrast to OpenRC, systemd launches X11 on 
the current TTY:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=169903



  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-12-19  8:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-18 16:04 [gentoo-user] XWindow appearing in a non-graphical tty. A bug or feature? gevisz
2020-12-18 15:22 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2020-12-18 17:31   ` gevisz
2020-12-19  8:07 ` Nikos Chantziaras [this message]
2020-12-19 15:08   ` gevisz
2020-12-19 19:20   ` Grant Edwards

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