> Bad news - ivihome is now a conglomeration of the new UX and the old UX, and 
> there is no easy way to launch a second console (which was the reason I 
> wanted to use ivihome in the first place

Note that in any case, a system can have only one /dev/console.
Procedure below gets access to /dev/tty? where ? > 0.

Here's how I get a second (and third and  fourth) virtual terminal
with 1.2 Tablet UX version of uxlaunch:

1. Edit /etc/syslinux/syslinux.conf  (or similar) and set bootloader
timeout to, say, 10 seconds.    Turn off splash screen  (delete
"quiet" or "hiddenmenu").

2. When you reboot, hit tab when bootloader appears in order to get a prompt.

3. Type a space at the end of the line and then "3" (no quotes) to get
an X-less console boot.     (What are we going to do to get text-mode
boot with systemd?   Not sure myself.)

4. At prompt, login.    You should be able to change among virtual
terminals with Ctrl-Alt-F? mechanism, not to mention "chvt."    If you
still don't have multiple virtual terminals, try "openvt /bin/bash".

5. On one virtual terminal, type "uxlaunch&"     Starting uxlaunch in
background preserves access to other vt's with usual mechanisms.

HTH.
-- Alison

-- 
Alison Chaiken
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