How do I increase the number of TTY consoles?
I often find it convenient to work entirely from the command line, and like to have several tty "consoles" open simultaneously.
How do I make my system default to having more than the traditional 6 tty consoles (CTRL-ALT-Fn)?
Also with the transition to SystemD and Gnome, has the tty console number actually drop? I seem to struggle sometimes opening even one, let alone several, and often end up with a behavior in which several (CTRL-ALT-Fn) combinations all lead to a GUI rather than a tty.
I am running a combo of Ubuntu 18.04 and 18.10 across several machines, if it matters.
command-line tty console virtual-console
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I often find it convenient to work entirely from the command line, and like to have several tty "consoles" open simultaneously.
How do I make my system default to having more than the traditional 6 tty consoles (CTRL-ALT-Fn)?
Also with the transition to SystemD and Gnome, has the tty console number actually drop? I seem to struggle sometimes opening even one, let alone several, and often end up with a behavior in which several (CTRL-ALT-Fn) combinations all lead to a GUI rather than a tty.
I am running a combo of Ubuntu 18.04 and 18.10 across several machines, if it matters.
command-line tty console virtual-console
asked 6 hours ago
hazizhaziz
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You may want to explain why you prever virtual terminals over multi-tabbed windows of a X terminal application. With those, you can easily have as many as you like (I usually have about 20 tabs of xfce-terminal running, spread over ~three windows on each of five workspaces).
– leftaroundabout
4 hours ago
@leftaroundabout Why? I just prefer it most of the time! Most of the time the GUI remains unused, and lonely, sitting at the login screen.
– haziz
4 hours ago
Not saying I'm not prone myself to this kind of stubborn behaviour, but it does seem objectively irrational.
– leftaroundabout
3 hours ago
@leftaroundabout I am actually not being stubborn. About the only "killer app" for the GUI, as far as I am concerned, is the web browser, and very occasionally a photo library/photo editing tool (and Adobe Lightroom and my birdwatching database app are about the only applications still preventing me from dumping Windows/Mac completely). Most of the time I am inside Emacs at the command line, with the occasional use of ssh, gcc, scheme REPL etc. almost all from the command line. I would have browsed the web from the CLI if the CLI web browsers were more usable (which even I admit they are not).
– haziz
3 hours ago
2
Well, my point is, {X|gnome|kde}-terminal is a killer app for the GUI as well! I often do everything in the terminal as well, but I still wouldn't want to miss the window manager for easy organisation of the terminal tabs and -windows.
– leftaroundabout
3 hours ago
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I often find it convenient to work entirely from the command line, and like to have several tty "consoles" open simultaneously.
How do I make my system default to having more than the traditional 6 tty consoles (CTRL-ALT-Fn)?
Also with the transition to SystemD and Gnome, has the tty console number actually drop? I seem to struggle sometimes opening even one, let alone several, and often end up with a behavior in which several (CTRL-ALT-Fn) combinations all lead to a GUI rather than a tty.
I am running a combo of Ubuntu 18.04 and 18.10 across several machines, if it matters.
command-line tty console virtual-console
asked 6 hours ago
hazizhaziz
1,51752843
I often find it convenient to work entirely from the command line, and like to have several tty "consoles" open simultaneously.
How do I make my system default to having more than the traditional 6 tty consoles (CTRL-ALT-Fn)?
Also with the transition to SystemD and Gnome, has the tty console number actually drop? I seem to struggle sometimes opening even one, let alone several, and often end up with a behavior in which several (CTRL-ALT-Fn) combinations all lead to a GUI rather than a tty.
I am running a combo of Ubuntu 18.04 and 18.10 across several machines, if it matters.
command-line tty console virtual-console
command-line tty console virtual-console
asked 6 hours ago
hazizhaziz
1,51752843
asked 6 hours ago
hazizhaziz
1,51752843
asked 6 hours ago
hazizhaziz
1,51752843
asked 6 hours ago
hazizhaziz
1,51752843
asked 6 hours ago
hazizhaziz
1,51752843
1,51752843
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You may want to explain why you prever virtual terminals over multi-tabbed windows of a X terminal application. With those, you can easily have as many as you like (I usually have about 20 tabs of xfce-terminal running, spread over ~three windows on each of five workspaces).
– leftaroundabout
4 hours ago
@leftaroundabout Why? I just prefer it most of the time! Most of the time the GUI remains unused, and lonely, sitting at the login screen.
– haziz
4 hours ago
Not saying I'm not prone myself to this kind of stubborn behaviour, but it does seem objectively irrational.
– leftaroundabout
3 hours ago
@leftaroundabout I am actually not being stubborn. About the only "killer app" for the GUI, as far as I am concerned, is the web browser, and very occasionally a photo library/photo editing tool (and Adobe Lightroom and my birdwatching database app are about the only applications still preventing me from dumping Windows/Mac completely). Most of the time I am inside Emacs at the command line, with the occasional use of ssh, gcc, scheme REPL etc. almost all from the command line. I would have browsed the web from the CLI if the CLI web browsers were more usable (which even I admit they are not).
– haziz
3 hours ago
2
Well, my point is, {X|gnome|kde}-terminal is a killer app for the GUI as well! I often do everything in the terminal as well, but I still wouldn't want to miss the window manager for easy organisation of the terminal tabs and -windows.
– leftaroundabout
3 hours ago
add a comment |
1
You may want to explain why you prever virtual terminals over multi-tabbed windows of a X terminal application. With those, you can easily have as many as you like (I usually have about 20 tabs of xfce-terminal running, spread over ~three windows on each of five workspaces).
– leftaroundabout
4 hours ago
@leftaroundabout Why? I just prefer it most of the time! Most of the time the GUI remains unused, and lonely, sitting at the login screen.
– haziz
4 hours ago
Not saying I'm not prone myself to this kind of stubborn behaviour, but it does seem objectively irrational.
– leftaroundabout
3 hours ago
@leftaroundabout I am actually not being stubborn. About the only "killer app" for the GUI, as far as I am concerned, is the web browser, and very occasionally a photo library/photo editing tool (and Adobe Lightroom and my birdwatching database app are about the only applications still preventing me from dumping Windows/Mac completely). Most of the time I am inside Emacs at the command line, with the occasional use of ssh, gcc, scheme REPL etc. almost all from the command line. I would have browsed the web from the CLI if the CLI web browsers were more usable (which even I admit they are not).
– haziz
3 hours ago
2
Well, my point is, {X|gnome|kde}-terminal is a killer app for the GUI as well! I often do everything in the terminal as well, but I still wouldn't want to miss the window manager for easy organisation of the terminal tabs and -windows.
– leftaroundabout
3 hours ago
1
1
You may want to explain why you prever virtual terminals over multi-tabbed windows of a X terminal application. With those, you can easily have as many as you like (I usually have about 20 tabs of xfce-terminal running, spread over ~three windows on each of five workspaces).
– leftaroundabout
4 hours ago
You may want to explain why you prever virtual terminals over multi-tabbed windows of a X terminal application. With those, you can easily have as many as you like (I usually have about 20 tabs of xfce-terminal running, spread over ~three windows on each of five workspaces).
– leftaroundabout
4 hours ago
@leftaroundabout Why? I just prefer it most of the time! Most of the time the GUI remains unused, and lonely, sitting at the login screen.
– haziz
4 hours ago
@leftaroundabout Why? I just prefer it most of the time! Most of the time the GUI remains unused, and lonely, sitting at the login screen.
– haziz
4 hours ago
Not saying I'm not prone myself to this kind of stubborn behaviour, but it does seem objectively irrational.
– leftaroundabout
3 hours ago
Not saying I'm not prone myself to this kind of stubborn behaviour, but it does seem objectively irrational.
– leftaroundabout
3 hours ago
@leftaroundabout I am actually not being stubborn. About the only "killer app" for the GUI, as far as I am concerned, is the web browser, and very occasionally a photo library/photo editing tool (and Adobe Lightroom and my birdwatching database app are about the only applications still preventing me from dumping Windows/Mac completely). Most of the time I am inside Emacs at the command line, with the occasional use of ssh, gcc, scheme REPL etc. almost all from the command line. I would have browsed the web from the CLI if the CLI web browsers were more usable (which even I admit they are not).
– haziz
3 hours ago
@leftaroundabout I am actually not being stubborn. About the only "killer app" for the GUI, as far as I am concerned, is the web browser, and very occasionally a photo library/photo editing tool (and Adobe Lightroom and my birdwatching database app are about the only applications still preventing me from dumping Windows/Mac completely). Most of the time I am inside Emacs at the command line, with the occasional use of ssh, gcc, scheme REPL etc. almost all from the command line. I would have browsed the web from the CLI if the CLI web browsers were more usable (which even I admit they are not).
– haziz
3 hours ago
2
2
Well, my point is, {X|gnome|kde}-terminal is a killer app for the GUI as well! I often do everything in the terminal as well, but I still wouldn't want to miss the window manager for easy organisation of the terminal tabs and -windows.
– leftaroundabout
3 hours ago
Well, my point is, {X|gnome|kde}-terminal is a killer app for the GUI as well! I often do everything in the terminal as well, but I still wouldn't want to miss the window manager for easy organisation of the terminal tabs and -windows.
– leftaroundabout
3 hours ago
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Before answering your question, I would rather point you to use something like screen or tmux.
But if you insist on using ttys, you can spawn a new one with:
sudo systemctl start getty@ttyN.service
with N being a number not already in use.
You could change the default number of ttys started at boot (6) to something else by editing /etc/systemd/logind.conf and uncommenting the first line and change the number 6 to something else like:
[Login]
NAutoVTs=7
Source: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Getty
answered 6 hours ago
solsTiCesolsTiCe
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I did tinker with tmux, briefly, a few years ago. I did not find it particularly intuitive. Swapping between several tty consoles, is however, brain-dead simple. I know it sounds strange coming from a die-hard Emacs fan!
– haziz
5 hours ago
3
@haziz: The advantage of tmux is not that it is intuitive. It is that you can SSH into it, and then it will protect your shell(s) from accidental SIGHUP on disconnect (if the internet drops).
– Kevin
4 hours ago
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Before answering your question, I would rather point you to use something like screen or tmux.
But if you insist on using ttys, you can spawn a new one with:
sudo systemctl start getty@ttyN.service
with N being a number not already in use.
You could change the default number of ttys started at boot (6) to something else by editing /etc/systemd/logind.conf and uncommenting the first line and change the number 6 to something else like:
[Login]
NAutoVTs=7
Source: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Getty
answered 6 hours ago
solsTiCesolsTiCe
6,18332049
I did tinker with tmux, briefly, a few years ago. I did not find it particularly intuitive. Swapping between several tty consoles, is however, brain-dead simple. I know it sounds strange coming from a die-hard Emacs fan!
– haziz
5 hours ago
3
@haziz: The advantage of tmux is not that it is intuitive. It is that you can SSH into it, and then it will protect your shell(s) from accidental SIGHUP on disconnect (if the internet drops).
– Kevin
4 hours ago
add a comment |
Before answering your question, I would rather point you to use something like screen or tmux.
But if you insist on using ttys, you can spawn a new one with:
sudo systemctl start getty@ttyN.service
with N being a number not already in use.
You could change the default number of ttys started at boot (6) to something else by editing /etc/systemd/logind.conf and uncommenting the first line and change the number 6 to something else like:
[Login]
NAutoVTs=7
Source: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Getty
answered 6 hours ago
solsTiCesolsTiCe
6,18332049
I did tinker with tmux, briefly, a few years ago. I did not find it particularly intuitive. Swapping between several tty consoles, is however, brain-dead simple. I know it sounds strange coming from a die-hard Emacs fan!
– haziz
5 hours ago
3
@haziz: The advantage of tmux is not that it is intuitive. It is that you can SSH into it, and then it will protect your shell(s) from accidental SIGHUP on disconnect (if the internet drops).
– Kevin
4 hours ago
add a comment |
Before answering your question, I would rather point you to use something like screen or tmux.
But if you insist on using ttys, you can spawn a new one with:
sudo systemctl start getty@ttyN.service
with N being a number not already in use.
You could change the default number of ttys started at boot (6) to something else by editing /etc/systemd/logind.conf and uncommenting the first line and change the number 6 to something else like:
[Login]
NAutoVTs=7
Source: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Getty
answered 6 hours ago
solsTiCesolsTiCe
6,18332049
Before answering your question, I would rather point you to use something like screen or tmux.
But if you insist on using ttys, you can spawn a new one with:
sudo systemctl start getty@ttyN.service
with N being a number not already in use.
You could change the default number of ttys started at boot (6) to something else by editing /etc/systemd/logind.conf and uncommenting the first line and change the number 6 to something else like:
[Login]
NAutoVTs=7
Source: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Getty
answered 6 hours ago
solsTiCesolsTiCe
6,18332049
answered 6 hours ago
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6,18332049
answered 6 hours ago
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answered 6 hours ago
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I did tinker with tmux, briefly, a few years ago. I did not find it particularly intuitive. Swapping between several tty consoles, is however, brain-dead simple. I know it sounds strange coming from a die-hard Emacs fan!
– haziz
5 hours ago
3
@haziz: The advantage of tmux is not that it is intuitive. It is that you can SSH into it, and then it will protect your shell(s) from accidental SIGHUP on disconnect (if the internet drops).
– Kevin
4 hours ago
add a comment |
I did tinker with tmux, briefly, a few years ago. I did not find it particularly intuitive. Swapping between several tty consoles, is however, brain-dead simple. I know it sounds strange coming from a die-hard Emacs fan!
– haziz
5 hours ago
3
@haziz: The advantage of tmux is not that it is intuitive. It is that you can SSH into it, and then it will protect your shell(s) from accidental SIGHUP on disconnect (if the internet drops).
– Kevin
4 hours ago
I did tinker with tmux, briefly, a few years ago. I did not find it particularly intuitive. Swapping between several tty consoles, is however, brain-dead simple. I know it sounds strange coming from a die-hard Emacs fan!
– haziz
5 hours ago
I did tinker with tmux, briefly, a few years ago. I did not find it particularly intuitive. Swapping between several tty consoles, is however, brain-dead simple. I know it sounds strange coming from a die-hard Emacs fan!
– haziz
5 hours ago
3
3
@haziz: The advantage of tmux is not that it is intuitive. It is that you can SSH into it, and then it will protect your shell(s) from accidental SIGHUP on disconnect (if the internet drops).
– Kevin
4 hours ago
@haziz: The advantage of tmux is not that it is intuitive. It is that you can SSH into it, and then it will protect your shell(s) from accidental SIGHUP on disconnect (if the internet drops).
– Kevin
4 hours ago
add a comment |
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You may want to explain why you prever virtual terminals over multi-tabbed windows of a X terminal application. With those, you can easily have as many as you like (I usually have about 20 tabs of xfce-terminal running, spread over ~three windows on each of five workspaces).
– leftaroundabout
4 hours ago
@leftaroundabout Why? I just prefer it most of the time! Most of the time the GUI remains unused, and lonely, sitting at the login screen.
– haziz
4 hours ago
Not saying I'm not prone myself to this kind of stubborn behaviour, but it does seem objectively irrational.
– leftaroundabout
3 hours ago
@leftaroundabout I am actually not being stubborn. About the only "killer app" for the GUI, as far as I am concerned, is the web browser, and very occasionally a photo library/photo editing tool (and Adobe Lightroom and my birdwatching database app are about the only applications still preventing me from dumping Windows/Mac completely). Most of the time I am inside Emacs at the command line, with the occasional use of ssh, gcc, scheme REPL etc. almost all from the command line. I would have browsed the web from the CLI if the CLI web browsers were more usable (which even I admit they are not).
– haziz
3 hours ago
2
Well, my point is, {X|gnome|kde}-terminal is a killer app for the GUI as well! I often do everything in the terminal as well, but I still wouldn't want to miss the window manager for easy organisation of the terminal tabs and -windows.
– leftaroundabout
3 hours ago