Moving X from VT7 to VT12

[Tom H]

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 9:54 AM, sktsee <sktseer at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 19 May 2011 21:13:03 -0400, Tom H wrote:
>>
>> I like the text with the original patch: "Force initial X server to go
>> to tty7 instead of tty1. This is an Ugly Hack until we have a cleaner
>> solution." And that was when Karmic was in development! And since then,
>> it's just been renamed so there hasn't been a "cleaner" solution...
>
> Debian has patch called 06_firstvt.patch for version 2.30.x which sets up
> a configurable option FirstVT in the [daemon] section of gdm's conf file.
> I'm not sure why Ubuntu choose not include that patch in their build.
> Could be they simply don't know about it.
>
> To me, though, the cleanest solution would have had upstream not removing
> so many of gdm's configurable options from /etc/gdm/*.conf in the first
> place.

FirstVT used to be an upstream variable but it seems to have been
dropped between 2.20 and 2.24:
http://projects.gnome.org/gdm/docs/2.20/configuration.html
http://projects.gnome.org/gdm/docs/2.24/configuration.html
so the Debian maintainer must like it and is applying the "06..."
patch to which you refer above.

A total WAG: FirstVT doesn't play well with either plymouth or upstart
or both since 1) both Fedora and Ubuntu use them both, 2) GNOME's
closely aligned to Fedora, 3) Debian doesn't use either.