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Old 30th August 2014
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Originally Posted by spermwhale_warrior View Post
Someone said that X do not open a tty.
Then how is it called, the place that one can access through CtrL+ALT+F[6-9] and which show graphical things ?
I think the term "tty" derives from its use as a short-hand for teletypewriter. In Net/Open-BSD we have "wsconsoles", similar to the Linux "virtual consoles". We switch between them with Ctrl-Alt-FN (or no Ctrl- in Linux). Many of these are set up as text consoles. But they don't have to be, X can grab one and set it up for graphical display. When it does that it isn't using the same character-based protocols as it would on a text tty. I hope the above is more-or-less correct, I don't have a deep knowledge of the inner workings.
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