[ale] Changing the default tty that XFree86 starts on?

[Geoffrey]

Christopher Bergeron wrote:
> Does anyone know which conf file determines what tty XFree86 will start 
> on?  On my machine it's tty6, but I'd like to change it to a different one.

I can't recall the answer to this, but I'll see what I can dig up.  I'm 
pretty sure X takes the first available.  On my box, X runs on tty7 and 
in /etc/inittab there are gettys specified for tty1-tty6.  If you remove 
one of those entries I'm pretty sure X will start on the one you remove. 
  If you remove all of them, (probably not wise) X will start on tty1.

This is speculation drawn from playing with this a while back.

If you go to a current virtual terminal, you can start another X session 
as in:

startx -- :1

This will show up on your next available tty, in your case tty7.

> 
> Also, out of curiosity, how many tty's can I have on my machine?  I have 
> 12 Function keys, and I think it might be pretty sexy to have about 10 
> or 12 gettys listening on each one.

I assume you are referring to multiple instances of X on different ttys?
There was a discussion regarding this on the list a while back.  I was 
able to configure a large # of these, I think it was > then 8 anyway.

> 
> Does anyone where I'd change that too?  I have a feeling it's 
> /etc/inittab, so I'm going to go try changing that now.
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks!
> -CB
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