Well Im not sure about how to enable more consoles. I know its possible
as I remember someone talking about it, but not how to do it.
With regards to the X launching console being unusable, what you can do
is redirect all output to /dev/null by appending ">/dev/null 2>&1" onto
the end of your startx command, or whatever you use.
On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 17:08 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
> Non-negotiable item 1) My eyes aren't what they used to be, and I find
> 80x48 on a 19-inch CRT in bright cyan text on black to be much easier on
> the eyes than GUIs.
>
> Non-negotiable item 2) I have certain items that I prefer to handle in
> separate sessions.
>
> I read news and email on text-consoles, but I have them set up to
> launch a Firefox tab when I hit {SHIFT-U}. Then I can hit {ALT-F7},
> view a webpage referenced in a post, and then hop back to where I was.
> The problem with having an X session open is that the console that
> opened it is bombarded with all sorts of crap messages about "style-file
> not found", "font not found" etc. This renders the console from which X
> was launched unusable for anything else.
>
> So I'm down to 5 usable consoles in the region between {CTRL-ALT-F1}
> and {CTRL-ALT-F6}, and sometimes that isn't enough. At first, I thought
> that "screen" would be the answer. However, its colour support sucks,
> especially if you're trying to use colour-coded syntax in vim. And I
> find that even if I can get a session set up "properly", when I flip
> away, and then flip back, it does *NOT* restore properly.
>
> I've looked through "make menuconfig" and manually paged through
> /usr/src/linux/.config, and there's nothing obvious to me about changing
> the number of available text consoles. I'd like to have {CTRL-ALT-F1}
> through {CTRL-ALT-F10} available for text consoles, which would still
> leave #11 for X, and #12 for the very few times that I ever launch two
> simultaneous X sessions.
>
> I'm asking here, because I want to do this in a Gentoo-legal manner
> that doesn't get clobbered the next time I build a new kernel or
> whatever.
>
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