On Vi, 07 nov 14, 15:12:04, Eric Sharkey wrote: > On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 5:34 AM, Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > > > > Nowadays (testing/unstable) a simple 'startx' doesn't even have to hunt > > around for an unused display because it will always bring X up on the > > tty it is started from. > > A display and a tty aren't quite the same thing. It still has to > figure out what display (what you see when you run "echo $DISPLAY") to > use. I'm quite sure Brian meant tty. > And starting up X on the text tty is really awful in my opinion. I > liked it much better when 1-6 was reserved for text and 7-12 for > graphics. How do you even see console messages now? For debugging X the log is usually more useful anyway and this also prevents someone getting very easy access your system by just Ctrl-Alt-Fx (the console where 'startx' was run) and just Ctrl-C to kill the X server. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
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