Re: Why does X default to vt7?

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From: Terry Dawson
Date: Thu, 26 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.

X11 starts on the first available VT. Debina by default spawns
getty's on the first 6 vt. I've cut that down to 3 by commenting
out the entries in /etc/inittab for the ones I don't want.

regards
Terry

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Date: 1996/12/26
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