Re: systemd: tty6
On Sun 29 Jun 2014 at 01:06:10 +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> On 6/19/14, Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 10:24:20AM +0100, Brian wrote:
> >> No getty is ever spawned on tty7 so it is always available for X. If
> >> there are login prompts on tty1 to tty5 X will be on tty7. It cannot be
> >> run on tty6 because systemd keeps this as an emergency tty.
> >
> > I'm running a screen session on tty6 with quite a few windows! Does,
> > that mean it could *suddenly* be 'commandeered' by systemd?
>
> I think if you give the "current terminal" option to startx, then yes.
>
> Otherwise, business as usual. But I haven't tested this.
>
> May be test and let us know?
All that ReserveVT= means is that any subsystem (perhaps think in terms
of user switching) can allocate any vt *apart* from vt6. vt6 will always
be there to be used by autovt@.service.
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