Moving gdm from vt7 to vt12

Shentino shentino at gmail.com
Thu Feb 24 15:41:08 UTC 2011


On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 6:21 AM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

Tried it in mint 10, no go.

I'll try full desktop maverick when it finishes downloading.

I don't know whose bright idea it was to lock gdm down onto vt7 but it is
seriously annoying me how hard it is proving to change it.  I'd swear it was
hard coded.


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