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by **Steve Quezada** » Thu, 22 Feb 2001 02:07:27

I just manually installed X Windows on my Slackware Linux laptop and it
works great. However, I remember when I automatically installed X Windows on
Red Hat, the software somehow put JUST X-windows in virtual terminal #7
(reachable by Ctl-F7), and all the other virtual terminals (Ctl-F1 to
Ctl-F6) were all command prompt. I liked this setup. Does anyone know how to
replicate this behavior? I thought it was neat.

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by **Steve Marti** » Thu, 22 Feb 2001 10:30:08

> I just manually installed X Windows on my Slackware Linux laptop and it
> works great. However, I remember when I automatically installed X Windows on
> Red Hat, the software somehow put JUST X-windows in virtual terminal #7
> (reachable by Ctl-F7), and all the other virtual terminals (Ctl-F1 to
> Ctl-F6) were all command prompt. I liked this setup. Does anyone know how to
> replicate this behavior? I thought it was neat.

Just a guess here, but I think (based on the little fiddling I've
done with this) that if you put entries in /etc/inittab to start
getty processes on the first six virtual terminals, it'll bump
the X process down to the seventh. Look for a series of entries
down in the file that look like this:

# Run gettys in standard runlevels
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1
2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2
3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3
4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4
5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5
6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6

This is from my /etc/inittab file, which does what you describe.
See "man inittab" for more details. Hope this helps.

by **Glitc** » Sat, 24 Feb 2001 18:15:25

> I just manually installed X Windows on my Slackware Linux laptop and it
> works great. However, I remember when I automatically installed X Windows on
> Red Hat, the software somehow put JUST X-windows in virtual terminal #7
> (reachable by Ctl-F7), and all the other virtual terminals (Ctl-F1 to
> Ctl-F6) were all command prompt. I liked this setup. Does anyone know how to
> replicate this behavior? I thought it was neat.

uh...first, i think it was Ctl+Alt , not just Ctl, but i could be wrong.
I'm using Windows98 right now so can't check but if i actually know what
im talking about and dont rely on muscle memory(when i do it myself) its
Ctl+Alt that does that.

second....if u haven't started X yet then doing Ctl-Alt-F7 wont do
anything. Onc you have X started and try going ot a console and back to
X using the above methods then it will work....do u have X running
already when you try this?

what is happening now when u try going to a VT? anything?

Suse 6.3 automatically did it for me like that but i havent' ever
upgraded so maybe it isn't automatic once an upgrade occurs.

by **Stephan Bea** » Sat, 10 Mar 2001 01:29:26

> In my Debian machine, it allows me to specify virtual terminal such
> as "startx vt9" so that [Alt][Ctrl]9 is the display ":0".

You can also edit /etc/initab to set the terminal it starts on.

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by **m.c.dooliga** » Fri, 16 Mar 2001 05:53:51

> > In my Debian machine, it allows me to specify virtual terminal such
> > as "startx vt9" so that [Alt][Ctrl]9 is the display ":0".

> You can also edit /etc/initab to set the terminal it starts on.

Yup. Or you can edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers:
:0 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -bpp 16 -weight 555 vt9 <--- or whatever.

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