On Sat, Sep 08, 2012 at 10:47:47AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote > Incidentally, I've found out why the system creates many TTYs : > they're the equivalent of GUI workspaces = desktops, > allowing someone working without X to view different files etc. > I'm continually struck by the genius of those who created UNIX in 1969 ...
From my slightly modified /etc/inittab # TERMINALS c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux c2:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 linux c3:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux c4:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty4 linux c5:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty5 linux c6:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux c7:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty7 linux c8:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty8 linux c9:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty9 linux This gives me 8 working ttys. I run startx from tty9, so various logging gets spewed to tty9. It's usable in a pinch, but not for normal use. I run X in tty10, and sometimes as a second user in tty11, even with a different resolution and bit depth. tty12 gets kernel logging stuff spewed to it -- Walter Dnes <[email protected]> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
