My 12 y o son asked me what ws the purpose of the x console, I honestly couldn't come up with an answer..so..I ask this list..just what is the purpose of the x console ? Thank you all very much for your time. Lee
On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 08:04:19 -0500
lee
My 12 y o son asked me what ws the purpose of the x console, I honestly couldn't come up with an answer..so..I ask this list..just what is the purpose of the x console ?
Thank you all very much for your time.
Well it is a commandline interface to the machine, just like what you might find on alt-F1 thru alt-F6, only it is on the X graphical display. On some display managers, "console" has the connotation of a login with root, but I don't use that connotation. You can type in commands, and they will execute. If the command involves starting an X program, it will start on the X display. For instance, what if you wanted a directory listing? open an x-console or xterm type in "ls -la" if you want to capture it to a file to send to someone: ls -la > mydir.txt HTH -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation
If you are talking about the little console window that comes up on the screen when you start your computer, it is set as stderr wich means that the system will log error messages if they happen there. This gives you the ablility to see if something has gone massively wrong with the system without haveing to open your log files. Austin On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 08:04:19AM -0500, lee wrote:
My 12 y o son asked me what ws the purpose of the x console, I honestly couldn't come up with an answer..so..I ask this list..just what is the purpose of the x console ?
Thank you all very much for your time.
Lee
I have a question:
When the system is configured to start on level 5 (init 5), you
automatically get xconsole started.
This is different if you start on init 3 and manually start Xwindows with
"startx"
Where is the configuration that enables Xwindows to automatically start
xconsole on Level 5?
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Juan Francisco Torres Ch.
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From: "Austin Morgan"
If you are talking about the little console window that comes up on the screen when you start your computer, it is set as stderr wich means that the system will log error messages if they happen there. This gives you the ablility to see if something has gone massively wrong with the system without haveing to open your log files.
Austin On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 08:04:19AM -0500, lee wrote:
My 12 y o son asked me what ws the purpose of the x console, I honestly couldn't come up with an answer..so..I ask this list..just what is the purpose of the x console ?
Thank you all very much for your time.
Lee
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When the system is configured to start on level 5 (init 5), you automatically get xconsole started.
This is different if you start on init 3 and manually start Xwindows with "startx"
Where is the configuration that enables Xwindows to automatically start xconsole on Level 5?
check in the /etc/inittab file.. one of the first (non-comment) lines will probably read: id:3:initdefault: if you are booting into the console instead of x. to boot into x as the default, change it to read: id:5:initdefault: -- trey
Thanks for the answer, but I think my question was not clear enough.
What I need to know is where is the configuration that automatically starts
the program "xconsole" inside Xwindows, when I start my machine on runlevel
5.
This is because i notice that when i start in runlevel 3 and then type
"startx", the program is not automatically started.
Thanks
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Juan Francisco Torres Ch.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Trey Gruel"
When the system is configured to start on level 5 (init 5), you automatically get xconsole started.
This is different if you start on init 3 and manually start Xwindows with "startx"
Where is the configuration that enables Xwindows to automatically start xconsole on Level 5?
check in the /etc/inittab file.. one of the first (non-comment) lines will probably read:
id:3:initdefault:
if you are booting into the console instead of x. to boot into x as the default, change it to read:
id:5:initdefault:
-- trey
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lee
My 12 y o son asked me what ws the purpose of the x console, I honestly couldn't come up with an answer..so..I ask this list..just what is the purpose of the x console ?
xconsole displays syslog messages, see /etc/syslog.conf. If he hasn't heard about syslog before then just tell him there are mysteries that only adults can understand and syslog is one of them. -- Alexandr.Malusek@imv.liu.se
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