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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: XWindow appearing in a non-graphical tty. A bug or feature?
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2020 08:07:38
Message-Id: rrkcbu$13nn$1@ciao.gmane.io
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] XWindow appearing in a non-graphical tty. A bug or feature? by gevisz
1 On 18/12/2020 18:04, gevisz wrote:
2 > During the last 22 years, I got used to the setting
3 > when the XWindow system appeared on one of
4 > the "graphical" virtual terminals, mostly on tty6 or tty7.
5 >
6 > However, after installing a new Gentoo system with
7 > gentoo-kernel, I found out that the XWindow system
8 > started to appear in the same tty, where I started it
9 > using the startx command, shadowing all that was
10 > typed there including the messages from the xorg-server.
11 >
12 > So, I just wonder: "Is it a bug or a feature?"
13 >
14 > And where exactly can one configure it?
15
16 Are you using systemd? In contrast to OpenRC, systemd launches X11 on
17 the current TTY:
18
19 https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=169903

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