<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 8:20 AM, Tom H <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tomh0665@gmail.com">tomh0665@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Shentino <<a href="mailto:shentino@gmail.com">shentino@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Tom H <<a href="mailto:tomh0665@gmail.com">tomh0665@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Shentino <<a href="mailto:shentino@gmail.com">shentino@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> > On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Tom H <<a href="mailto:tomh0665@gmail.com">tomh0665@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> >> On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Shentino <<a href="mailto:shentino@gmail.com">shentino@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> >> ><br>
>> >> > I've been googling for awhile and snooping around in config, but I'm<br>
>> >> > stumped.<br>
>> >> ><br>
>> >> > How do I have gdm/X/desktop whatever start on vt12 instead of vt7?<br>
>> >> > I need more vt's and I find it more pleasant to scoot the desktop<br>
>> >> > over<br>
>> >> > to 12<br>
>> >> > so that I can have gettys on 1-10 and a secure top on 11.<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> I'm not sure what you mean by "secure top" but have you tried creating<br>
>> >> tty7 through tty10/tty11 in "/etc/init"?<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> AFAIK, GDM'll use the next available vt.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Silly me, forgot to mention that I'm on maverick which uses upstart.<br>
>> > Also, I have upstart scripts that slap ttys on 1-10, and gdm still takes<br>
>> > on<br>
>> > 7 even though it already has a getty on it.<br>
>><br>
>> There's one thing that I forgot. Sorry!<br>
>><br>
>> You also have to edit the "ACTIVE_CONSOLES" line in<br>
>> "/etc/default/console-setup".<br>
><br>
> Strangely enough I already did this.<br>
>><br>
>> I think that this'll be enough but there may be some gdm.conf settings<br>
>> to change too. I only have X-less Ubuntu installs so I can't check<br>
>> this. Does one of the files in "/etc/gdm/" have a "FirstVT" variable<br>
>> set (for example the standard "FirstVT=7"? If it does, you'll have to<br>
>> change it to 12. It wouldn't hurt to set it though.<br>
><br>
> You might be onto something here.<br>
> I have grepped /etc up and down left and right for the keywords vt, maybe<br>
> I'll try VT.<br>
> A bit of detective work appears to indicate that the "vt7" bit that gdm<br>
> passes to the X server is very very stubborn, almost as if hardcoded into<br>
> the gdm binary.<br>
<br>
</div></div>I've found a Debian Sid VM and I did the above (inittab,<br>
console-setup, and FirstVT) and GDM's starting on vt12.Unless<br>
something's been seriously modified in Ubuntu, it should work for you<br>
too.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm inclined to blame the "seriously modified"</div><div><br></div><div>There is no FirstVT setting anywhere under /etc at all, let alone /etc/gdm. A recursive grep shows this.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Maybe vt7 happens to be a hard coded default. Could you tell me the exact filename that FirstVT is in on your system? I might try injecting it manually on my end.</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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