Hello Aurélien,
Am Mon, Jun 30, 2025 at 12:18:03AM +0200 schrieb Aurélien COUDERC:
> Le samedi 21 juin 2025, 18:41:59 heure d’été d’Europe centrale Helge 
> Kreutzmann a écrit :
> > Hello Aurélien,
> 
> Dear Helge,
> 
> > did you have a chance to test this? This is really anyoing.
> > 
> > I just discovered that it is also the other way round:
> > run (as root)
> > systemctl restart sddm
> > → Console 7 is closed and programms running there are killed.
> 
> Yes, I could reproduce this.

Thanks for checking.

> It is due to SDDM declaring a [email protected] in its service 
> file. See [1] and [2].

Ok, the I just have to find out how to properly edit  the file, /usr
is not simply an edito away.

> I seem to remember that in the distant past this would have been required 
> because display managers had to run on tty7 not to step over user sessions or 
> for managing some interaction with plymouth or something…
> I’m not sure this still makes much sense today, and you will probably be fine 
> removing that Conflicts relation with tty7 from the unit. Feel free to give 
> it a try and report back.
> 
> I’d say it’s a pretty niche use case since the default install has 6 ttys 
> enabled by default and I’m not sure many people are both using 7 or more ttys 
> and using sddm.

No idea either.

> And I don’t feel confident changing this in the Debian package so close to 
> the release. I’m not sure if there are any interactions with other components 
> we could break this way. But we can certainly do the change early in the 
> forky cycle.

Great. Maybe a short mention in the release notes could be done?

Greetings

         Helge
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