Which tty gets the X server?
MR ZenWiz
mrzenwiz at gmail.com
Fri Jan 7 02:10:20 UTC 2011
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 5:48 PM, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> It's because console-kit-daemon keeps the vt "open".
>>
>> If you kill console-kit-daemon you can then run "deallocvt 7" and re-use vt7.
>>
>
> Once I kill console-kit-daemon, tty7 is blank and does not appear to
> be available for alternate logins. How do I change that (other than
> logging out or rebooting)?
>
Other oddities that occurred, and I'm only guessing that these are
related, are that my flash drive could not be mounted, and when I went
to reboot, the shutdown option had disappeared from my main menu
applet. Rebooting solved both of these, but WTF? (I'm back on tty7,
too.)
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