From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 4 22:37:53 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5B74106566C for ; Mon, 4 Aug 2008 22:37:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marshc187@gmail.com) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.152]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CBB38FC21 for ; Mon, 4 Aug 2008 22:37:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marshc187@gmail.com) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id l26so2993835fgb.35 for ; Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:37:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition:message-id; bh=STOXB4iyfB+/WoobnMm1qtgZRA0K4AIpBltzdPOdpok=; b=Aoz4TcpZeRcth+z0h3v+e4bhyVF28eaeA+KSP7C4hMbWtrH3uhWxjZMWvUlfXxKDir PBb5aR1e+hJos4QDRF1jffw1/Dg6/+RxyL08I3ixVQS32JgySdPfmNW2ja+YZWePIxrW i7xLlq1jAysfsXs13cVv/XNPOFY0L2+uAilB0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=W8r95QzPFMWJDUg60mkr/tfwwMVlg0C3jOGjM4Xiq96y+z39CP57j5/eSqa5cnQJhu sxIrBGm0hkQoCX19QhCxuzi51xqaSerQs/opHHdEAiP9v+b/b5GJ3SCtyNTIJAZck6G1 hAl8YlKCGt8SZZFSkPtxIINGU4RtKvjREpsnc= Received: by 10.86.73.3 with SMTP id v3mr9529237fga.17.1217889471756; Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:37:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.2.101? ( [195.158.125.245]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d6sm592850fga.2.2008.08.04.15.37.48 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:37:49 -0700 (PDT) From: mcassar To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 00:37:41 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200808050037.41772.marshc187@gmail.com> Subject: x11/xterm question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 22:37:53 -0000 hi anyone, can anyone tell me how to replicate/get this thing running cuz i'm still learning the basics of unix, and really hooked on freebsd - but this is driving me nuts and need to ask. hope this explains it proper since i don't know the technical terms of what i'm looking for; which might make this easier- basically i have xorg and kde3 running ok, and i'm using kdm now - by editing /etc/ttys -> tty8. but previously, when testing x11 and kde i was first starting x11 with 'startx' without any .xinitrc file whatsoever - so i could go to the basic x that starts with a couple of xterms and a clock, if you know the one... and then type 'startkde' in one of those. kde starts, but what i'm interested in, is that the xterm i started kde from keeps displaying messages - which on a few occasions seemed very clean, on others i noticed warnings - like bad window, etc. now i'm basically trying to get one of those running after starting from kdm - if possible. i don't know if 'tail' is what i'm looking for, and if so whether it goes through some log file somewhere in /var, or through running processes somehow. unless the most i can do is run that one a single app. thanks in advance