Re: Feature or bug?

[Adam Myrow <amyrow midsouth rr com>]

What one has to remember is that when you start an X session, it creates a
new virtual console and status messages appear on the console you started
X from.  For example, if you have 6 virtual consoles to start with,
starting X will create a console on tty7 and that's where Gnome and any X
applications are running.  The status messages are going to come on the
console you started X from.  So, to get back to your X session, switch to
console 7 using the example.  Of course, if you only had three virtual
consoles, you would find X on tty4.  The best way to find out how many
consoles you have is to look at /etc/inittab and see how many agetty
processes are invoked on what consoles.  Note that you might be using
mingetty instead of agetty as Redhat does.  Hope this helps.