Moving gdm from vt7 to vt12

[Tom H]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Shentino <shentino at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

It must be hard-coded hence the "vt.handoff" value in Natty.

In Fedora, it was (and might still be) hard-coded to vt1 and there was
talk (but I don't know whether it was implemented) to allow users to
over-ride it with "FORCEACTIVEVT=no" in "/etc/sysconfig/desktop".

You could try installing natty's plymouth but it might pull a few
other packages from natty and it might be too early in the development
process to be relying on natty packages on a non-test box.