[gentoo-user] Re: XWindow appearing in a non-graphical tty. A bug or feature?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2020-12-19, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com> wrote:
> On 18/12/2020 18:04, gevisz 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?"
>>
>> And where exactly can one configure it?
>
> Are you using systemd? In contrast to OpenRC, systemd launches X11 on
> the current TTY:

Not any more. The default profile now launches X11 on the current TTY
even if you're using OpenRC.

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Grant