On Dec 9, 2019, at 17:54, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Yes, those consoles are available but they are NOT my original text mode > login console which used to be vt1 and is now taken over by Gnome. What they > do is bring me to a login prompt -- this is NOT what I want. This change to > vt1 for my GUI, in this case, Gnome is a change with version 7 of CentOS due > to some sort of validation with a REAL console. I am still NOT clear on what > the problem is. I could easily go in and modify startx to NOT start with vt1 > for GUI (this is NOT in the "standard" version of startx) but well, I am > still trying to sort this out.
The “startx” command will run Xorg with -keeptty if you launch it from a VT console. I believe this is related to non-setuid Xorg and systemd-logind, but it’s been a long time since I’ve cared about startx. I prefer graphical login prompts. I think you can run startx with a vt7 parameter if you want the old behavior. > What happened to cause this concern to me. My GUI totally and completely > locked up on me last week. I could NOT log out, I could not do ANYTHING! I > finally had to just power down completely! The old ctrl-alt-F1 used to put me > back at console without fail. I don't like having this option "taken away". You couldn’t log in on another VT and kill the other session? Or just run reboot? I’m pretty sure that the xorg-x11-xinit package hasn’t changed in several years so you must not have needed it that much. -- Jonathan Billings _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
