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List:       gentoo-user
Subject:    [gentoo-user] Re: XWindow appearing in a non-graphical tty. A bug or feature?
From:       Nikos Chantziaras <realnc () gmail ! com>
Date:       2020-12-19 8:07:26
Message-ID: rrkcbu$13nn$1 () ciao ! gmane ! io
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On 18/12/2020 18:04, gevisz wrote:
> During the last 22 years, I got used to the setting
> when the XWindow system appeared on one of
> the "graphical" virtual terminals, mostly on tty6 or tty7.
> 
> However, after installing a new Gentoo system with
> gentoo-kernel, I found out that the XWindow system
> started to appear in the same tty, where I started it
> using the startx command, shadowing all that was
> typed there including the messages from the xorg-server.
> 
> So, I just wonder: "Is it a bug or a feature?"
> 
> And where exactly can one configure it?

Are you using systemd? In contrast to OpenRC, systemd launches X11 on 
the current TTY:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=169903


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