Hi All, I remember in earlier editions (7.3 ish) there was a small terminal like window on the desktop which carried some of the system messages. At the time I always got rid of it as I didn't understand how useful it could be. Now, I'd like to get it back but I don't know what it was and it doesn't come up by default any more. Any pointers? Cheers Dylan -- "I see your Schwartz is as big as mine" -Dark Helmet
On Wednesday, 6 October 2004 22.52, Dylan wrote:
Hi All,
I remember in earlier editions (7.3 ish) there was a small terminal like window on the desktop which carried some of the system messages. At the time I always got rid of it as I didn't understand how useful it could be. Now, I'd like to get it back but I don't know what it was and it doesn't come up by default any more. Any pointers?
/dev/xconsole should be owned by you on login, so you can just run xconsole -file /dev/xconsole If you're not happy about what gets logged to xconsole, edit /etc/syslog.conf and add/remove, then "killall -HUP syslogd" to make it take effect
On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 22:52, Dylan wrote:
Hi All,
I remember in earlier editions (7.3 ish) there was a small terminal like window on the desktop which carried some of the system messages. At the time I always got rid of it as I didn't understand how useful it could be. Now, I'd like to get it back but I don't know what it was and it doesn't come up by default any more. Any pointers?
I use kwatch. for that purpose, I find it better in that, it can "watch" multiple log files, and being a GUI program, you can change the font size! Jerry
Cheers Dylan -- "I see your Schwartz is as big as mine" -Dark Helmet
On Wednesday 06 October 2004 22:52, Dylan wrote:
I remember in earlier editions (7.3 ish) there was a small terminal like window on the desktop which carried some of the system messages. At the time I always got rid of it as I didn't understand how useful it could be. Now, I'd like to get it back but I don't know what it was and it doesn't come up by default any more. Any pointers?
Yup, I know what you mean. It is by default disabled for kdm and gdm in /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup. Here's a patch to enable it: --- /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup.orig 2004-04-01 14:35:15.000000000 +0200 +++ /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup 2004-10-06 23:45:44.889613514 +0200 @@ -160,9 +160,9 @@ # # No xconsole fot kdm/gdm case # -if test "$kdm" = "yes" -o "$gdm" = "yes" ; then - exit 0 -fi +#if test "$kdm" = "yes" -o "$gdm" = "yes" ; then +# exit 0 +#fi # # The geometry of xconsole is set in the Xresource file. You can also edit the file by hand, and comment out those lines. I have now an xconsole running again since... I can't remember when it disappeared... ;) Cheers, Leen
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