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Yiannis <yiannis@××××××××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:35:49 -0500 |
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> Lance Lassetter <lance@××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> > On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 05:32 +0300, Yiannis wrote: |
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> > > Hello, |
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> > > |
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> > > I have noticed this strange behavior on my gentoo box. After logging |
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> > > out of gnome, gdm and the subsequent gnome session use vt8 instead |
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> > > of vt7(which was used till that time). All following sessions |
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> > > continue using vt8. |
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> > > Has anybody else noticed such behavior? |
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> > > |
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> > > Regards |
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> > > |
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> > > Yiannis |
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> > > |
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> > Yep. vt7 to login then switched to vt8 after logging in. So if you |
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> > ctrl+alt+f1 you get console tty1 and if at the gdm screen you're still |
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> > at vt7. If you log in then instead of ctrl+alt+vt7 to get back into |
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> > gnome you ctrl+alt+vt8. |
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> > Dunno why :) Used to be standard vt7 and vt8 was used for launching |
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> > another session of X. |
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> > |
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> > Lance |
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> > |
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> |
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> Appending: |
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> 0=Standard vt7 |
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> in /etc/X11/gdm/custom.conf did the trick. |
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> Should have googled better |
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I have a similar problem -- with more recent versions of gdm, gdm tries |
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to take ovver vt7 even though it is in use by a login prompt -- I |
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actually have 11 virtual consoles active. I wonder if this solution |
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would prevent this behavior? |
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How do |
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