[Lvlug] tty's

LFessen106@aol.com LFessen106@aol.com
Wed, 8 Nov 2000 08:06:35 EST


In a message dated 11/8/00 12:12:55 AM Eastern Standard Time, danns@fast.net 
writes:

> I'm not quite sure how this happened, but the other day I switched from
>  my X-session to a login on tty2.  Did what I wanted to do there and
>  bumped back to tty 7 (<alt><ctrl><f7>) which is where X usually is, but
>  it was not there.  So, I started going down through the list and no X,
>  but tty1 showed X was still up and running.  The next logical step was
>  to start going up and there it was on tty9.  I am curious as to how this
>  happeded.  /etc/inittab still shows only 6 tty's available.  Could it be
>  the xfce did something funky?
>  
>  Hey Linc, I know you are using xfce, where is your X?
>  
>  

Mine is on pty1 (which is on tty7) unless I specifically start it or another 
on display 1 instead of 0.
-Linc.