Moving gdm from vt7 to vt12

[Tom H]

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Shentino <shentino at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Shentino <shentino at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > I've been googling for awhile and snooping around in config, but I'm
>> > stumped.
>> >
>> > How do I have gdm/X/desktop whatever start on vt12 instead of vt7?
>> > I need more vt's and I find it more pleasant to scoot the desktop over
>> > to 12
>> > so that I can have gettys on 1-10 and a secure top on 11.
>>
>> I'm not sure what you mean by "secure top" but have you tried creating
>> tty7 through tty10/tty11 in "/etc/init"?
>>
>> AFAIK, GDM'll use the next available vt.
>
> Silly me, forgot to mention that I'm on maverick which uses upstart.
> Also, I have upstart scripts that slap ttys on 1-10, and gdm still takes on
> 7 even though it already has a getty on it.

There's one thing that I forgot. Sorry!

You also have to edit the "ACTIVE_CONSOLES" line in
"/etc/default/console-setup".

I think that this'll be enough but there may be some gdm.conf settings
to change too. I only have X-less Ubuntu installs so I can't check
this. Does one of the files in "/etc/gdm/" have a "FirstVT" variable
set (for example the standard "FirstVT=7"? If it does, you'll have to
change it to 12. It wouldn't hurt to set it though.