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ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours agoFucking thank you so much I’ve spent the last hour trying to find this out lmao, but I couldn’t find it by searching “what is fedora tty1” for some reason.
I tried tty2 (as all online advice says to try): nothing. So I tried tty3, and it worked! But then I tried to switch “back” to my GUI using tty7, blinking cursor. Fuck. Went back to 3, tried 2 and breathed a sigh of relief as I saw my GUI lmao. But then began the quest to learn why are tty1 and 7 different.
So, tty1 is SDDM, can I ask what that is? I see:
SDDM is a modern graphical display manager aiming to be fast, simple and beautiful. It uses modern technologies like QtQuick, which in turn gives the designer the ability to create smooth, animated user interfaces.
But uuhhhh… what? I see no graphicals only the blinky cursor. And is tty7 that also?
turdas@suppo.fi 9 hours ago
SDDM is the login screen, but when you’re already logged in it’s not going to display anything.
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
Ah so that’s why flashy line, am already logged in to KDE. I guess when I log in the system auto switches me from tty1 login to tty2 KDE? But then why does tty7 have the same flashy line, both can’t be login, can they?
turdas@suppo.fi 4 hours ago
I don’t know what TTY7 is, but if I had to guess I’d say Plymouth, which is the graphical loading screen that covers the boot messages.
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 hours ago
Ah that’d make sense, thanks! Idk why I can’t find the info anywhere online, it has to be in the fedora docs somewhere!