Yiannis <yian...@tolises.homeunix.org> wrote: > On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:35:49 -0500 > Lance Lassetter <la...@hometeal.net> wrote: > > > 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 > > > > Appending: > 0=Standard vt7 > in /etc/X11/gdm/custom.conf did the trick. > > Should have googled better >
I have a similar problem -- with more recent versions of gdm, gdm tries to take ovver vt7 even though it is in use by a login prompt -- I actually have 11 virtual consoles active. I wonder if this solution would prevent this behavior? -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com