Which tty gets the X server?

[Chris Angelico]

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 11:47 AM, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> I thought the X server (gdm, etc.) ran on tty7, with ttys 1-6 being
> the alternate, text-only virtual consoles.  After crashing, it seems
> that the X server moves to tty8 and even tty9 (if tty8 crashes).
>
> Can anyone verify (and explain) this?  Seems pretty strange to me....

I don't know about X crashes, but what I've seen is that the "switch
to user" feature can activate tty8. On my scratch system, I have my
primary login that comes up on tty7, and then if I want to run a
Windows program, I switch to my alternate login (this lets me blow
away the entire Wine config or even the whole user if I muck something
up). Once I've logged in as both, I can then switch to the primary
login with C-A-F7, or the "lose" login (yeah, that's what my Wine
login is) with C-A-F8.

Do you have a secondary account with which you could play with this?
It might put the alternate onto tty7 if the primary was on tty8, or it
might just abandon tty7 as unavailable.

Chris Angelico