Hello,
If you are in doubt, you can use the following command to check which virtual consoles are in use (and, consequently, which are unused and you could switch to them to open a terminal on them):In this example, a tty1 is running a bash sell, tty2 and tty3 are running a login prompt, tty7 is running the X server:Hope this helps.
If you are in doubt, you can use the following command to check which virtual consoles are in use (and, consequently, which are unused and you could switch to them to open a terminal on them):
Code:
$ ps ax | grep tty
Code:
$ ps ax | grep tty 774 tty1 Ss 0:00 /bin/login -p -- 796 tty7 Rsl+ 0:44 /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg :0 -seat seat0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch 8274 tty1 S+ 0:00 -bash 8455 tty2 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/agetty -o -p -- \u --noclear - linux 9258 tty3 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/agetty -o -p -- \u --noclear - linux 9339 pts/0 S+ 0:00 grep tty
Statistics: Posted by Aki — 2025-01-10 19:20 — Replies 5 — Views 122