Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:32:28 -0700 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com> Cc: Tom Uffner <tom@uffner.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: x11-toolkits/xview (actually contool) Message-ID: <4A7A40BC.3010102@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <e71790db0908051837w7791e022mdcb1dc6516ad1f23@mail.gmail.com> References: <4A74D10A.9000507@uffner.com> <200908031312.14400.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.ports@mailing.thruhere.net> <4A77A67D.1050101@uffner.com> <200908032207.37816.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.ports@mailing.thruhere.net> <4A77D926.2070304@uffner.com> <e71790db0908042008j53d97e79gd38c088b5fdc858f@mail.gmail.com> <4A79F0AC.4000103@uffner.com> <e71790db0908051837w7791e022mdcb1dc6516ad1f23@mail.gmail.com>
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Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote: > On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Tom Uffner<tom@uffner.com> wrote: >> Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote: >> >>> Can't xconsole do the job for you instead of contool? >> more or less. i am using xconsole by default. however i prefer contool >> because it has the following features which are missing from every other >> X console program that I am aware of: >> >> 1. it can remain iconified (or entirely unmapped) and out of my way most >> of the time. >> 2. it can timestamp the messages it prints >> 3. it can alert me to the presence of new console messages by flashing >> its icon, beeping, and/or opening its window >> 4. it allows me to specify, using regular expression filters, the types >> of messages it should or should not alert on. >> >>> BTW, what problems do you have with contool? Are they the same ones >>> discussed before in these threads? >>> >>> >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2008-October/026516.html >>> >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2008-November/026722.html >> my xconsole still exhibits those problems. don't know about contool yet. > > It is even worst on 8.0, now. Even making xconsole SUID root I can't > see any of the messages written to /dev/console. Using "xterm -C" does > not work. > >> as i said, i haven't had the time to diagnose it yet. what console i use >> on my X workstations is not really that high a priority in the grand scheme >> of things. contool is exiting with this message: >> >> Assertion failed: (ret != inval_id), function _XAllocID, file xcb_io.c, line >> 378. >> Abort >> >> which may be another symptom of the tty layer changes, but i haven't really >> had time to look at it yet. > > Looks like a bug in XCB. This would not be a surprise, given the poor > engineering of Xorg these days (lack of it, in fact). Try rebuilding > libX11 with the patch I sent in this PR: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=137373 > > You will not miss XCB. It is as useful as hole int your head. I thought contool looked interesting so I tried build it. It requires xview, which fails as follows on a fairly recent -current (8.0-BETA2 r195917: Mon Jul 27 16:09:24 PDT 2009): cc -fPIC -O2 -pipe -ggdb -fno-strict-aliasing -ggdb -I../../../build/include -I/usr/local/include -DCSRG_BASED -I/include -DSUNOS41 -DX11R6 -DFUNCPROTO=15 -DNARROWPROTO -DOS_HAS_LOCALE -DOS_HAS_MMAP -DEXTRASMENU="\"/usr/local/lib/.text_extras_menu\"" -I../../../build/include -I/usr/local/include -DCSRG_BASED -I/include -DSUNOS41 -DX11R6 -DFUNCPROTO=15 -DNARROWPROTO -DOS_HAS_LOCALE -DOS_HAS_MMAP -DEXTRASMENU="\"/usr/local/lib/.text_extras_menu\"" -c ps_impl.c -o shared/ps_impl.o ps_impl.c: In function 'ps_create': ps_impl.c:183: warning: passing argument 1 of 'xv_error' makes integer from pointer without a cast rm -f ev_display.o shared/ev_display.o cc -fPIC -O2 -pipe -ggdb -fno-strict-aliasing -ggdb -I../../../build/include -I/usr/local/include -DCSRG_BASED -I/include -DSUNOS41 -DX11R6 -DFUNCPROTO=15 -DNARROWPROTO -DOS_HAS_LOCALE -DOS_HAS_MMAP -DEXTRASMENU="\"/usr/local/lib/.text_extras_menu\"" -I../../../build/include -I/usr/local/include -DCSRG_BASED -I/include -DSUNOS41 -DX11R6 -DFUNCPROTO=15 -DNARROWPROTO -DOS_HAS_LOCALE -DOS_HAS_MMAP -DEXTRASMENU="\"/usr/local/lib/.text_extras_menu\"" -c ev_display.c -o shared/ev_display.o In file included from ../../../build/include/xview_private/tty_impl.h:216, from ev_display.c:36: /usr/include/sys/ioctl_compat.h:42:2: error: #error "Definitions not available without TTY ioctl compat." ev_display.c: In function 'ev_init_X_carets': ev_display.c:89: warning: passing argument 1 of 'xv_error' makes integer from pointer without a cast ev_display.c: In function 'ev_put_caret': ev_display.c:138: warning: passing argument 1 of 'xv_error' makes integer from pointer without a cast *** Error code 1 -- This .signature sanitized for your protection
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