Re: systemd (was ... Re: Article on swift, responsive computers)

[berenger.morel@neutralite.org]

Le 18.06.2014 11:24, Brian a écrit :
> On Tue 17 Jun 2014 at 23:10:08 -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
>
> > According to my understanding from the discussions I've read: under
> > systemd, if you run 'startx' with no options from vt1, it will cause 
> > X
> > to launch on vt1 - whereas under sysvinit, doing that will cause X 
> > to
> > launch on vt7.
>
> Not quite. Under systemd a getty and login prompt will be spawned on
> tty1 on booting. The remaining ttys are free. startx will bring up X 
> on
> the first available free tty, which is tty2.
>
> If you did ALT-F2 before starting X on tty1 the first available free 
> tty
> is tty3 because there is now a getty process on tty2.
>
> No getty is ever spawned on tty7 so it is always available for X.

According to /etc/inittab, but does systemd still use this file?

> It cannot be
> run on tty6 because systemd keeps this as an emergency tty.

How is it defined? It seems to be exactly the same as for all TTYs in 
inittab?
Also, I thought that there was some informations in inittab about were 
xorg instances will be spawned, but it seems that I was wrong, so do 
someone knows were their TTYs are defined, if they are anyway?