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Correct assumption. @user6081: That is why [Ctrl][Alt][F1-6] gets you a text terminal, but [Ctrl][Alt][F7] brings you the Mint GUI.

Fabby
– Fabby

2015-08-23 08:41:35 +00:00
Commented Aug 23, 2015 at 8:41
On my machine (I believe this is the Mint default, and possibly Ubuntu, from which Mint is derived) the X session uses tty8. Grepping Xorg.0.log and using kbdinfo as you described confirms this. ctrl-alt-F8 gets me the Mint GUI, and ctrl-alt-F7 gets me a text console with a few startup messages still sitting in it. kbdinfo on tty7 returns mode "text".

meeotch
– meeotch

2015-08-23 17:32:17 +00:00
Commented Aug 23, 2015 at 17:32
@user6081 On Ubuntu, X runs on tty7 by default.

Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
– Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'

2015-08-23 19:39:29 +00:00
Commented Aug 23, 2015 at 19:39
Interesting. So how do you get to the (text) startup console? Or is tty7 essentially usurped as soon as X starts, and then there's no way back to the startup console?

meeotch
– meeotch

2015-08-23 23:15:33 +00:00
Commented Aug 23, 2015 at 23:15

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