Moving gdm from vt7 to vt12

[Tom H]

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Shentino <shentino at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Sorry. Create either "gdm.conf", "custom.conf", or "daemon.conf" (only
>>> the latter works in sid) in "/etc/gdm/" with
>>> ---<begin>---
>>> [daemon]
>>> FirstVT = 12
>>> ---<end>---
>>> as its contents.
>>
>> I created all three files.  gdm still stubbornly refuses to use any terminal
>> other than tty7
>
> I'd forgotten about Ubuntu's plymouth. It must be interfering in the
> tty assignment, but I have no idea how to control that.

This might only work in Natty:

Append "vt.handoff=12" to either GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX or
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT in "/etc/default/grub" and run update-grub.