Moving gdm from vt7 to vt12

[Tom H]

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Shentino <shentino at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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".
>
> Strangely enough I already did this.
>>
>> 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.
>
> You might be onto something here.
> I have grepped /etc up and down left and right for the keywords vt, maybe
> I'll try VT.
> A bit of detective work appears to indicate that the "vt7" bit that gdm
> passes to the X server is very very stubborn, almost as if hardcoded into
> the gdm binary.

I've found a Debian Sid VM and I did the above (inittab,
console-setup, and FirstVT) and GDM's starting on vt12.Unless
something's been seriously modified in Ubuntu, it should work for you
too.