Moving X from VT7 to VT12

[James Tappin]

On Wed, 18 May 2011 14:29:24 -0700
Shentino <shentino at gmail.com> wrote:

S> I unfortunately already learned this the hard way.
S> 
S> am I completely SOL if I want to move X to a different VT?
S> 
S> It's almost like it's hard coded and can't be changed.  I've looked
S> at every friggin config file I can find.
S> 
S> If someone knows for sure that I'm on a wild goose chase, please end
S> my misery.
S> 
S> I've considered escalating this issue to developers, since standard
S> support channels have been completely unfruitful.
S> 

At least for kdm the tty is an argument to the program, so I'd have
thought that changing the line in /etc/init/kdm.conf to
exec kdm 12
ought to do the trick (or equivalent for other display managers).


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