How do I increase the number of TTY consoles?












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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.






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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.






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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







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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.






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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:



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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!

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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


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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
            1 hour 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






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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
            1 hour 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






          share|improve this answer













          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







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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!

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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!

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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
          1 hour 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!

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