From a1a46db86071388fcfeb35d06147f673c6c58c6d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 12:56:55 +0200

Subject: [PATCH] logind: allow switching to unused VTs via SwitchTo()

If compositors use the new SwitchTo() logic to map F1-F12, we should allow

them to switch to unregistered VTs, too. Otherwise, the auto-spawn logic

of gettys won't trigger.

Reported-by: Jasper St. Pierre <jstpierre@mecheye.net>

Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>

(cherry picked from commit 154034270c4643b7cfe61c0be1676d78bb1b7b07)

---

 src/login/logind-seat.c | 7 ++++++-

 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/login/logind-seat.c b/src/login/logind-seat.c

index 3114de84de..9992195151 100644

--- a/src/login/logind-seat.c

+++ b/src/login/logind-seat.c

@@ -275,8 +275,13 @@ int seat_switch_to(Seat *s, unsigned int num) {

         if (!num)

                 return -EINVAL;

-        if (num >= s->position_count || !s->positions[num])

+        if (num >= s->position_count || !s->positions[num]) {

+                /* allow switching to unused VTs to trigger auto-activate */

+                if (seat_has_vts(s) && num < 64)

+                        return chvt(num);

+

                 return -EINVAL;

+        }

         return session_activate(s->positions[num]);

 }