Comment # 18 on bug 809557 from Egbert Eich

(In reply to Thomas Blume from comment #15)
> On a new 13.2 installation there is no /dev/xconsole.
> It seems that the /dev/xconsole pipe is exlusively created by rsyslogd using
> /usr/sbin/rsyslog-service-prepare.
> And apparently rsyslogd is the only one using it.
> 
> Is there really a need for /dev/xconsole if rsyslogd is not installed or
> would xconsole just display /dev/console then?

No, it should work the other way around: with no rsyslogd around any more, and
xconsole reading from /dev/console when /dev/xconsole doesn't  exist, journald
(or whatever) should be taught to write log messages of a certain severity etc.
to /dev/console.