Which tty gets the X server?

[Tom H]

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 4:23 PM, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 5:16 AM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 8:48 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)?
>>
>> Should've said kill -HUP. SORRY!
>>
> I presume that would allow it to restart itself without deleterious effect?

I've just tested it on Maverick (I'd done only so once previously on
Squeeze a few months ago). It works well.