Hiya folks

OK, the basic details first: I have a video card with THREE connectors (DVI, VGA, S-VIDEO), but it will only run any TWO displays at a time.
My main X configuration uses two monitors (DVI & VGA), but I wanted an alternate X configuration I could switch to easily, with output to DVI + SVIDEO, so I could watch movies on the television sometimes.
Rather than do a lot of messing around with multiple xorg.confs, logging-out/in again, or unplugging things, I made two 'ServerLayouts' in my xorg.conf;

Now, by clicking a desktop-link to a one line script like so:

#!/bin/bash
startx -- :1 -layout "television"

A second X session starts using the "television" ServerLayout and displays video on my main monitor, plus the TV. The second monitor turns off. I switch back using CTRL-ALT-F7.
This is cool, and works from my user desktop, but here's the issue(s):

A) Regardless of whether I use a :1 or :2 or :6 or :<any-number> in the command above, the new session starts on CTRL-ALT-F2 (which is technically TTY2 I guess). What do I have to do to get the new session to start on CTRL-ALT-F6 for example? I'd prefer using F7 & F6 than F7 & F2. Just makes better sense to me.

B) More importantly, I have learned that if I want a similarly clickable (bash) method of switching back to CTRL-ALT-F7 (my default X session) it seems I need to use the chvt N command. However, as a regular user, chvt 7 returns a 'Operation Not Permitted' error. As root, it works fine, but I'm not running as root.
The binary chvt is rwx r-x r-x so I should be able to execute it.

I'm sure there is a VERY simple item I am overlooking, but keep coming back to such things as inittab, init, .bashrc, .bash_profile, and similar files, but it doesn't look like the answer lies in one of these files.
Google mostly gives me the same bash and X tutorials paraphrased 100 different ways, but all they focus on are CTRL-ALT-Fn (not a mouse click) and chvt N (works in the tutorials, but not for me).

Guidance is appreciated
Thanks.

The :1 :2 or :6 has nothing to do with which terminal X starts on. It only serves to id the X server so clients may write to its local domain sockets. By default X will start in the first unused tty (i.e., the same as if you ran the command “openvt” as root).
chvt, much like the X binary, must be run as root since it does some permission-requiring ioctls on device nodes. Imagine if any (unprivileged) remote user could play with the root terminal! Fortunately, the solution is simple: use sudo with NOPASSWD for that particular command.

Interesting; thank you Osor for the quick and concise reply.

So, kinda funny how I can start an X on another terminal, but then can't use chvn just the same to switch back to my default session.. Well, perhaps I will have to settle on using the CTRL-ALT-F7 method, or right click desktop and switch to my other logon. No big deal. (Note: I don't use SUDO for anything.)

As to the first issue, I was indeed aware that the "DEFAULT" is to open the new session on the first available console, BUT, is there no way to specify an alternate?

Thanks again

On second thought, it might work for an ordinary user if that user has write permission on the tty to which you are changing (i.e., /dev/tty7 permissions are 0666). This can be made to occur with clever udev rules. See if you can get that to work.
I am not aware of any way to specify an alternate terminal. Well, you could open up tty[2-6] (with openvt) prior to running X, then close them after X has launched (with deallocvt).

Well, here's the situation currently:

I can use the chvt command to change to whatever console I want, ONLY IF I set the SUID bit on chvt.
Despite that I feel chvt is a relatively benign binary, and this is a fairly well hardened desktop system with no (known) remote access or other users, I'd just as soon NOT use SUID for anything not really necessary. This issue isn't that big a deal. I can get by by either logging out of my second X session after the movie, or hitting CTRL-ALT-Fn to switch.

However, I did figure out a way to get my second X session to start up on TTY6 , by changing the following section of my inittab file like so:
This way, the system still boots up on TTY1, and X starts up on TTY7, as usual, but I've made TTY[2..5] into login gettys in run-level 4, so I can actually use them. As such, this leaves TTY6 unused, and so my second X session opens there.

Thanks for the input Osor; I think I will be content with this setup.

P.S. - I also had tried earlier to make sure I had RW permissions to the TTYs. All VC/TTYs are in the group TTY, to which I added my user account, and the permissions of the TTYs were RW-RW---- so should be sufficient, but still, chvt wouldn't let me switch to one.