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#1 2012-10-12 15:56:59

Pranavg1890
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[SOLVED]increase the number of tty's

Hi Friends, I want to increase the number of tty's on my system. I'm using arch with systemd with bash.suppose i want to increase the number of tty's to 12 (which is the number of function keys on our keyboards) , then how to do it?

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#2 2012-10-12 16:00:06

karol
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Re: [SOLVED]increase the number of tty's

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#3 2012-10-12 16:38:08

falconindy
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Re: [SOLVED]increase the number of tty's

Or just configure it in /etc/systemd/logind.conf. The wiki section you point to will force the gettys to spawn and will always be running.

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#4 2012-10-12 16:48:08

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Re: [SOLVED]increase the number of tty's

Thanks falconindy, I always wondered why the wiki mentions doing it that way.

Edit: I added the relevent info the the wiki.  Thanks again for the info about it not spawning on access by doing it the original wiki way, I would probably have never realized that on my own.

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#5 2012-10-12 17:00:22

Pranavg1890
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Re: [SOLVED]increase the number of tty's

Thanks @karol for reply. But i have one doubt. Where to change the tty reserved for X. For eg. suppose I want to start X in the last tty i.e. 12th tty , then how to do this?


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#6 2012-10-12 17:15:57

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Re: [SOLVED]increase the number of tty's

X starts on the first free tty, so if you have 11 ttys running with console, X will spawn on the 12th.

falconindy has more info http://blog.falconindy.com/articles/bac … stemd.html on how not to spawn a new tty.


Edit: You can also explicitly tell which tty to open X on e.g. 'startx -- vt8'.

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#7 2012-10-13 07:20:02

Pranavg1890
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Re: [SOLVED]increase the number of tty's

Thanks to all for helping me. especially @karol.  My problem is solved so i now mark this thread as solved.


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