Misterious Xorg 6.8.1 keyboard problem

Michel Dänzer michel at daenzer.net
Thu Nov 4 20:59:30 PST 2004


On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 17:19 -0500, Sergei Mutovkin wrote:
> Hello,
> the problem I described earlier I identified as a fight for keyboard
> control between X and getty.
> The solution was to remove terninals from init level 5. However, I'm
> wondering if there a way to specify that I want X to run on virtual
> terminal 7 instead of one that will be used by init to initialize
> consoles.
> I found that XDM can do this by usign option "vt" however, I can't
> find similar information about  startx/xinit...

startx/xinit take server arguments after double dashes, i.e. try

startx/xinit ... -- vt7


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