> What is even more confusing currently is that switching to tty2, logging > in as root and running 'systemctl restart prefdm.service' restarts the > dm back on tty7 anyway :/
No it doesn't. It starts it on the next available vt. If you login on tty2 and have switched to all ttys from 3-6 (and thus triggered the starting of a getty), then 7 will be the next available one and it will start there. If you do not switch to 3-6, then it will start on vt3. You can reserve the gettys by symlinking [email protected] to getty@tty[2-6].service in /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.want/ folder if you really want static gettys started at boot. I'd prefer not to bother running them unless I need them which is the default setup. As mentioned already prefdm.service has a specific conflict with [email protected]. This is why that static config is not loaded when booting to graphical.target. Now I'm not sure on the logic inside the Xserver that is used to search for a free getty. it maybe starts from the current one and counts up. If so, this logic should (IMO) be changed to start searching from 1 that way it would relatively consistently start on vt1 even when restarted from tty2. Col -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
