On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 03:19:05PM +0200, janm wrote: > This works well, I just use startx at boot. However, locking the screen and > returning from suspend presents me with a blank screen. When I do > Ctrl+Alt+F7, I get a blank screen with a blinking cursor. Ctrl+Alt+F2 etc. > get me other tty's, but that means losing my session.
Under systemd (jessie/stretch), X is started in the same tty where you ran startx. So, Ctrl-Alt-F1. Not Ctrl-Alt-F7, the way it used to be in wheezy and before. (The dynamic getty generator by default only gives you gettys up to tty6, not tty7.)