How Can I Change X's TTY

Question

How can I change X's tty from Ctrl-Alt-F7 to another F Key? I have only 4 ttys so I want X on the fifth.

possible duplicate of http://askubuntu.com/questions/147128/change-default-tty-shortcut — wagyourtail, Apr 20 '16 at 18:57
No, I don't want to change the shortcut for all tty's, just x's — jadenPete, Apr 21 '16 at 00:24

dzmanto · Answer 1 · 2019-11-01T10:17:00.843

In Ubuntu 18.04.04, the xorg tty changes from tty1 to tty7 when I replace the display manager gdm3 by lightdm. To replace the display manager, I run

sudo apt-get install lightdm

Likewise, the xorg tty changes from tty7 to tty1 when I replace lightdm by gdm3.

Yet another approach involves editing /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc. In xserverrc, replace the line

exec /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp "$@"

with

exec /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp "$@" vt$XDG_VTNR

where $XDG_VTNR specifies the number of your tty.

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