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Fedora Moves the X Server

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Jonathan Corbet
Oct 31, 2008

“If you’re running F10Beta/Rawhide, you may have noticed
already, but I wanted to make sure everyone knows this is
intentional:

X HAS MOVED FROM VT7 TO VT1.

GDM specifically starts X on tty1, and upstart does not start a
getty on tty1 in runlevel 5.”

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