On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 05:32 +0300, Yiannis wrote: > Hello, > > I have noticed this strange behavior on my gentoo box. After logging > out of gnome, gdm and the subsequent gnome session use vt8 instead of > vt7(which was used till that time). All following sessions continue > using vt8. > Has anybody else noticed such behavior? > > Regards > > Yiannis > Yep. vt7 to login then switched to vt8 after logging in. So if you ctrl+alt+f1 you get console tty1 and if at the gdm screen you're still at vt7. If you log in then instead of ctrl+alt+vt7 to get back into gnome you ctrl+alt+vt8.
Dunno why :) Used to be standard vt7 and vt8 was used for launching another session of X. Lance

