<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Shentino <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shentino@gmail.com">shentino@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I am perplexed as to why it needs to be hard coded.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Come to think of it, why is it hard coded? (devs welcome) </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><br></div><div>It's probably a developer level question but last I heard the X server accepted a vt argument that specifies which terminal to open for the desktop.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>And on this note, halelujah that I can change it at boot.</div>
<div><br></div><div>However, I would also like an option to specify it at runtime. For example, if I have to shut down and drop out of runlevel 5 for a moment, or I have to shut down the display server for any other reason. </div>
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<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Tom H <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tomh0665@gmail.com" target="_blank">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>On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Shentino <<a href="mailto:shentino@gmail.com" target="_blank">shentino@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 6:21 AM, Tom H <<a href="mailto:tomh0665@gmail.com" target="_blank">tomh0665@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Tom H <<a href="mailto:tomh0665@gmail.com" target="_blank">tomh0665@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> > On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Shentino <<a href="mailto:shentino@gmail.com" target="_blank">shentino@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> >>><br>
>> >>> Sorry. Create either "gdm.conf", "custom.conf", or "daemon.conf" (only<br>
>> >>> the latter works in sid) in "/etc/gdm/" with<br>
>> >>> ---<begin>---<br>
>> >>> [daemon]<br>
>> >>> FirstVT = 12<br>
>> >>> ---<end>---<br>
>> >>> as its contents.<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> I created all three files. gdm still stubbornly refuses to use any<br>
>> >> terminal<br>
>> >> other than tty7<br>
>> ><br>
>> > I'd forgotten about Ubuntu's plymouth. It must be interfering in the<br>
>> > tty assignment, but I have no idea how to control that.<br>
>><br>
>> This might only work in Natty:<br>
>><br>
>> Append "vt.handoff=12" to either GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX or<br>
>> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT in "/etc/default/grub" and run update-grub.<br>
><br>
> Tried it in mint 10, no go.<br>
> I'll try full desktop maverick when it finishes downloading.<br>
> I don't know whose bright idea it was to lock gdm down onto vt7 but it is<br>
> seriously annoying me how hard it is proving to change it. I'd swear it was<br>
> hard coded.<br>
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</div>It must be hard-coded hence the "vt.handoff" value in Natty.<br>
<br>
In Fedora, it was (and might still be) hard-coded to vt1 and there was<br>
talk (but I don't know whether it was implemented) to allow users to<br>
over-ride it with "FORCEACTIVEVT=no" in "/etc/sysconfig/desktop".<br>
<br>
You could try installing natty's plymouth but it might pull a few<br>
other packages from natty and it might be too early in the development<br>
process to be relying on natty packages on a non-test box.<br>
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