Re: How to determine the VT of a running X session?

[Andrew Cady <d@jerkface.net>]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 10:53:15AM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> Is there any way to determine the virtual terminal that an X 
> session is running on?

grep 'using VT number' /var/log/XFree86.(whatever).log

> Alternatively, is there any way to specify which tty an X session 
> is started on. 

>From XFree86(1x):

OPTIONS
       In  addition  to  the  normal  server  options described in the
       Xserver(1) manual page, XFree86 accepts the  following  command
       line switches:

       vtXX    XX  specifies  the Virtual Terminal device number which
               XFree86 will use.  Without this  option,  XFree86  will
               pick  the  first available Virtual Terminal that it can
               locate.  This option applies only to platforms such  as
               Linux,  BSD,  SVR3 and SVR4, that have virtual terminal
               support.