[SOLVED] Systemd/Logind - how to start X on other VT ?

Lone_Wolf · 2012-11-21 13:06:51

Startx used to put X on VT 7, and this has 2 important benefits for me :

1. the output of xsession is visible on the terminal i ran startx from
2. if i used CTRL-C on the terminal where i ran startx, it killed the X session.

man startx, xinit, logind.conf & systemctl help graphical.target gave no clues how to get this behaviour with systemd/logind .

While i could enable the CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE shortcut to be able to kill X again and get 2 back, this is much more error prone then using CTRL-C in 1 specific terminal.

Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2012-11-21 13:36:08)

Trilby · 2012-11-21 13:22:21

I've never used graphical.target, but if there is a call to startx or xinit you can include a parameter for the xserver as follows:

xinit -- vt7

phil · 2012-11-21 13:25:35

the command is

startx -- vt1

for me it is started on 1 as you can see.
But as described in the wiki, you can make an alias for startx which creates the logs on the terminal in a file:

alias startx='startx &> ~/.xlog'

Maybe read this https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … emd-logind

because loginctl will not be able to track your session and automount will not work and stuff.

Lone_Wolf · 2012-11-21 13:35:48

Thanks a lot, Trilby & phil.

Using

startx --vt7

does exactly what i want it to do.

As for automounting and such : i never use that, pmount/pumount work great and are simple to use.

Arch Linux

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[SOLVED] Systemd/Logind - how to start X on other VT ?

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