There have been discussions about the xdm entry /etc/ttys does not guarantee
the X server being started on the particular vty. So I wrote a shell script
to explicitly tell xdm to start X server on a specific vty. It's been working
great. I'd like to share it with you, maybe we could include it in the base
system. Here's the script (I call it xdmstart), it's very simple,
#!/bin/sh
case $1 in
ttyv*)
vt=vt`expr $1 : 'ttyv\(.*\)' + 1`;;
*) vt=;;
esac
exec /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon -server ":0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 $vt"
and in /etc/ttys replace the xdm line with
ttyv3 "/usr/local/bin/xdmstart" xterm on secure
There's one thing should be noted, the vtxx option isn't a standard X server
option, but both XFree86 and Xig support it, so majority of the people should
be covered.
-lq
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