Friday, 24 August 2012

Terminals and Login Screens


The login terminals in Linux are virtual consoles. Most Linux systems, including RHEL 6, are configured with six standard command line virtual consoles. These consoles are numbered from 1 to 6. When configured with a GUI and a login manager, other Linux distributions include a seventh virtual console, with a graphical login screen. 

That’s one place where RHEL 6 is a bit different, as in most cases, it substitutes the graphical login screen for the first virtual console. That applies just for the graphical login screen. If you start the GUI with the startx command, the GUI is run in the seventh virtual console.

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