Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 13:16:52 -0500 From: Mike Hauber <m.hauber@mchsi.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Steven Friedrich <FreeBSD@insightbb.com> Subject: Re: Within X, how can I see console messages? Message-ID: <200502041316.53001.m.hauber@mchsi.com> In-Reply-To: <20050204180003.GH8365@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub> References: <200502041201.06478.FreeBSD@insightbb.com> <4203AD1D.1090203@gmx.net> <20050204180003.GH8365@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub>
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On Friday 04 February 2005 01:00 pm, Nathan Kinkade wrote: > On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 06:13:01PM +0100, Benjamin Walkenhorst wrote: > > Steven Friedrich wrote: > > >I know I can Control-Alt-F1 to go back to the console, but > > > is there a way to see these messages in an xterm or > > > something? > > > > xconsole > > > > When xdm starts, xconsole gets started, too, on my machine, > > I can't remember doing anything to get this behaviour, > > though. This is setup automatically, and can be configured/removed from /usr/X11R6/lib/Xsetup_0. The command is as follows (it will probably wrap): xconsole -geometry 480x130-0-0 -daemon -notify -verbose -fn fixed -exitOnFail > > > > Kind regards, > > Benjamin > > Keep in mind that /dev/console may only be readable by root. > You might have to change permissions on the device, or perhaps > launch xconsole as the root user. There may be other ways to > get around this. I just throw this into the mix as a problem > that you may encounter. > > Nathan I'm not running as root and I'm not having any problems issuing the following command with xterm: xconsole -daemon -notify -verbose -exitOnFail Of course, you'd probably prefer creating a link to the application for your Desktop and/or menu. Hope that helps, Mike
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