I need to revert the X11 graphical server to Console 7. and enable VT1 as normal text as it was on the old distr..
Sincerely
AndyBe
3 thoughts on - X11 Console
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It can be quite annoying when the X console is changed from one Virtual Console to another as happens with almost every release of CentOS and Fedora. I would really like it to be always consistent at Console 7. And the “real” system console should always be Console 1.
I am OK with change, but this seems to be fairly random change with know apparent advantage or benefit.
It is a big deal to keep it consistent. That way I know what to tell customers when they call and I have to talk them through a procedure over the phone.
Good luck with that… The design changes are done in Fedora, by people who apparently never liked unix or consistency, not the people using Red Hat or CentOS that already have things working that they would like to keep working the same way across upgrades.
+1
I’ve been doing CentOS for a long time and the update from 6.5->6.6 cost me much hours, crashes, lock up … and final a complete re-install because of that and some code/commentary in an /etc/init* file that says X is a still expected on tty7 and changes could be put in a .override file if you want to change things.
Silly me believed I could actually get X to start back on tty7 just like
“God” intended.
I’m not, but my choices are apparently limed to switching distros, with results from that unknown. The discussion about Gnome 3 got me thinking about it first. Since I started working intimately with UNIX back in
’78, I’m wondering about the BSD stuff and the others guys have mentioned. When I visited my sister a couple years back I noticed her Apple stuff was based on BSD 4.0(?) IIRC – I *think* it was BSD. I
jumped right into command line mode a was happy a a pig in … “mud”.
However, being I’ve successfully transitioned into a TDU (Typical Dumb User) since exiting the profession, I consider that sort of switch quite carefully before doing anything.
I don’t know if this would work in your situation, but what I’ve done is make a “do nothing user” on my system. I log into the first X session there and do the System->Log out->Switch user thingy, which gives me tty7, tty8 and tty9 for the three logins I normally use.
3 thoughts on - X11 Console
+1
It can be quite annoying when the X console is changed from one Virtual Console to another as happens with almost every release of CentOS and Fedora. I would really like it to be always consistent at Console 7. And the “real” system console should always be Console 1.
I am OK with change, but this seems to be fairly random change with know apparent advantage or benefit.
It is a big deal to keep it consistent. That way I know what to tell customers when they call and I have to talk them through a procedure over the phone.
Thanks!
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Good luck with that… The design changes are done in Fedora, by people who apparently never liked unix or consistency, not the people using Red Hat or CentOS that already have things working that they would like to keep working the same way across upgrades.
+1
I’ve been doing CentOS for a long time and the update from 6.5->6.6 cost me much hours, crashes, lock up … and final a complete re-install because of that and some code/commentary in an /etc/init* file that says X is a still expected on tty7 and changes could be put in a .override file if you want to change things.
Silly me believed I could actually get X to start back on tty7 just like
“God” intended.
I’m not, but my choices are apparently limed to switching distros, with results from that unknown. The discussion about Gnome 3 got me thinking about it first. Since I started working intimately with UNIX back in
’78, I’m wondering about the BSD stuff and the others guys have mentioned. When I visited my sister a couple years back I noticed her Apple stuff was based on BSD 4.0(?) IIRC – I *think* it was BSD. I
jumped right into command line mode a was happy a a pig in … “mud”.
However, being I’ve successfully transitioned into a TDU (Typical Dumb User) since exiting the profession, I consider that sort of switch quite carefully before doing anything.
I don’t know if this would work in your situation, but what I’ve done is make a “do nothing user” on my system. I log into the first X session there and do the System->Log out->Switch user thingy, which gives me tty7, tty8 and tty9 for the three logins I normally use.
Bill