Re: Why does X default to vt7?

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From: Herbert Xu
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 00:00

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allen@cleo.murdoch.edu.au wrote:
> 
> On my Debian box X comes up on vt7.  I want to shift it to
> vt11 but I cannot find anything to edit to make the change.
> 
> I would also like a pointer to an introduction to X as I want to
> experiment with different colour depths, muliple users and X
> between different boxes.

If you use xdm, edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers and add the option
vt11 somewhere on that line.  For different colour depths, add
the option -bpp xx where xx is your desired depth.

If you use startx, then startx -- vt11 -bpp xx will do what you
want.
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