Moving gdm from vt7 to vt12

[Shentino]

I am perplexed as to why it needs to be hard coded.

It's probably a developer level question but last I heard the X server
accepted a vt argument that specifies which terminal to open for the
desktop.

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
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