[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.