пт, 18 дек. 2020 г. в 17:22, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com>: > > On 2020-12-18, gevisz <gev...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > During the last 22 years, I got used to the setting > > when the XWindow system appeared on one of > > the "graphical" virtual terminals, mostly on tty6 or tty7. > > > > However, after installing a new Gentoo system with > > gentoo-kernel, I found out that the XWindow system > > started to appear in the same tty, where I started it > > using the startx command, shadowing all that was > > typed there including the messages from the xorg-server. > > > > So, I just wonder: "Is it a bug or a feature?" > > IIRC, this happened as part of the switch to running the X server as a > normal user instead of as root. As a normal user, you only "own" the > tty you logged in on, so that's the one used by X. > > > And where exactly can one configure it? > > I assume that if you switch back to running X as root, you get the old > behavior of the X server running on tty6/7/whatever. I don't know if > there's a way to get that behavior while still running non-root X. >
Ok, thank you for the answer, I think that I could do with the new behaviour. :)
