On 2020-12-18, gevisz <gev...@gmail.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. -- Grant
