gui (sddm, kde & cinnamon) now on tty2, not on tty7

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Gladdle · Post by **Gladdle** » Thu Sep 07, 2023 1:27 pm

Since i know gentoo the graphical user interface is on "[Ctrl] + [ALT] + [F7]" (tty7), but since i had an update it has moved to tty2. I know, it's not important, but why happens that since the last update? Or maybe have i done something wrong? I have searched for this on the internet, but i found nothing about that.

steve_v · Post by **steve_v** » Thu Sep 07, 2023 1:33 pm

SDDM 0.20.x?
If so, they've embraced the "systemd specification" (display manager on tty1) and dropped support for defining which tty X runs on in the sddm config file.
That does not however seem to be working out as intended, probably because of this bug. So we get semi-random "first available tty (but not tty1)" behaviour. Yay.

Gladdle · Post by **Gladdle** » Thu Sep 07, 2023 1:38 pm

Yes, it's sddm-0.20.0-r1 but on a systemd free system. I didn't found where i can configure that to go back to tty7, maybe you can give me a hint?

steve_v · Post by **steve_v** » Thu Sep 07, 2023 1:42 pm

Gladdle wrote:I didn't found where i can configure that to go back to tty7

See edit above, you can't, at least not with sddm. They dropped support for defining minimumvt in the config file.
Here's the bug report for this asinine change.

logrusx · Post by **logrusx** » Thu Sep 07, 2023 2:00 pm

Gladdle wrote:Yes, it's sddm-0.20.0-r1 but on a systemd free system. I didn't found where i can configure that to go back to tty7, maybe you can give me a hint?

Back when I used openrc there was a configuration to pre-allocate user login terminals and the X server (there was no Wayland back then) would occupy the first free VT.
There is a similar setting in systemd as well but I found myself logging in into virtual terminals only when I do some system rescue, so I dropped it.

Best Regards,
Georgi

Gladdle · Post by **Gladdle** » Thu Sep 07, 2023 3:41 pm

steve_v wrote:
Gladdle wrote:I didn't found where i can configure that to go back to tty7
See edit above, you can't, at least not with sddm. They dropped support for defining minimumvt in the config file.
Here's the bug report for this asinine change.

That only means that's not in the configuration anymore but i thought maybe there is a option in wayland or x11. So thanks a lot for the information, maybe the "bug" will be solved from the developers.