On Sun, 22 Nov 2015 00:40:01 +0100, berenger.morel wrote: > Hello. > > There is a behavior change I noticed when I switched to Jessie, which > have always annoyed me but that I never tried to resolve. > > The change is that now, when I use startx on TTY1, Xorg replaces the > TTY. I understand that it is not a problem for 99% of users, but I would > like to know how to configure Debian to stay with the old behavior (aka: > start Xorg on TTY 7+). > Do someone have any clue about how to do that? > > Thanks. > > PS: I am not registed on this list, so please CC me.
I too am not a fan of the new behavior. X now runs on the terminal from which it is started, so to run it on tty7 you must run a getty on tty7 and log in there first. Do this by editing /etc/inittab (if using init) or /etc/systemd/logind.conf (if using systemd.)
