The startx manpage states:
To determine the server to run, startx first looks for a file called .xserverrc in the user's home directory...

The actual behavior of startx seems to be rather different from this.
I created ~/.xserverrc, containing this command line:

exec /usr/bin/X -retro -nolisten tcp vt7 "$@"

(in addition to the shebang line), and set it to chmod +x.

X still starts on the original vt.

If startx could be made to behave as documented (NOT simply documented to
behave how it does), it would be nice.


I have SysV init, *not* systemd, so I'm not concerned about logind getting
confused.