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

[gevisz]

пт, 18 дек. 2020 г. в 17:22, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com>:
>
> On 2020-12-18, gevisz <gevisz@×××××.com> 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?"
>
> IIRC, this happened as part of the switch to running the X server as a
> normal user instead of as root. As a normal user, you only "own" the
> tty you logged in on, so that's the one used by X.
>
> > And where exactly can one configure it?
>
> I assume that if you switch back to running X as root, you get the old
> behavior of the X server running on tty6/7/whatever. I don't know if
> there's a way to get that behavior while still running non-root X.
>

Ok, thank you for the answer,

I think that I could do with the new behaviour. :)