diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index c416b75..2821b28 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -8,3 +8,5 @@
 - consider moving text code from ply-window to a ply-text-buffer analog of ply-frame-buffer
 - maybe watch for VT switches and do things like restoring text color palette and stopping drawing the framebuffer
 - clean up the event loop watch api to always be in terms of watch objects instead of function/user_data pairs.
+- Fix --hide-splash to properly unredirect console until next --show-splash or event better make attach-to-session
+  a client command, with detach-from-session a separate one
diff --git a/src/main.c b/src/main.c
index 0c82db1..93363e2 100644
--- a/src/main.c
+++ b/src/main.c
@@ -191,6 +191,18 @@ on_hide_splash (state_t *state)
       ply_window_free (state->window);
       state->window = NULL;
     }
+
+  if (state->session != NULL)
+    {
+      ply_trace ("unredirecting console");
+      int fd;
+
+      fd = open ("/dev/console", O_RDWR | O_NOCTTY);
+      if (fd >= 0)
+          ioctl (fd, TIOCCONS);
+
+      close (fd);
+    }
 }
 
 static void