On Wednesday 02 October 2002 14:31, John Lamb wrote:
I'm trying to get my xconsole back on the KDE desktop. My /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xsetup contains the lines == # # Only for display :0 we have to set up the xconsole to be # sure that the system messages are visible. # case "$DISPLAY" in
:0|:0.0) ;;
*) exit 0 ;; esac
# # The geometry of xconsole is set in the Xresource file. # ( exec setsid $xconsole -notify -nostdin -verbose -exitOnFail ) & echo $! > /var/run/xconsole.pid
exit 0 == These should start xconsole. In fact it flashes very briefly on the screen sometimes just before KDE starts. If I run a script with these line in after starting KDE I get an xconsole as desired.
Suggestions please. I like my xconsole :-)
JDL =======================
JDL, As I just recently had this problem also, I hope my fix works for you also. The lines you show were in my file also and I got the brief flash of the xconsole when trying to activate it. Did you also notice in the file if you have this section too? # # Do not start xconsole for kdm # /sbin/checkproc -p /var/run/kdm.pid /opt/kde3/bin/kdm && exit 0 ------------------- This of course, stops the xconsole from running and should be commented out. I think mine happened after updating the XFree86 files. I missed the xconsole also, but from some of the more experienced users, system messages are better read with the tail -f command in a terminal. An example might be tail -f /var/log messages and then drop the terminal window on another desktop, out of your way, but easy to check. Patrick -- --- KMail v1.4.3 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.0 --- Registered Linux User #225206