From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 5 04:47:36 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 9D260106566B for ; Tue, 5 Aug 2008 04:47:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alainfabry@belgacom.net) Received: from mailrelay010.isp.belgacom.be (mailrelay010.isp.belgacom.be [195.238.6.177]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 400108FC0A for ; Tue, 5 Aug 2008 04:47:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alainfabry@belgacom.net) X-Belgacom-Dynamic: yes X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AmcMANh4l0hR92N0/2dsb2JhbACBWIkWpEs Received: from 116.99-247-81.adsl-dyn.isp.belgacom.be (HELO belgacom.net) ([81.247.99.116]) by relay.skynet.be with ESMTP; 05 Aug 2008 06:47:34 +0200 Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 06:43:04 +0200 From: "Alain G. Fabry" To: mcassar Message-ID: <20080805044304.GA49807@ducati-748.3rdrock.kicks-ass.net> References: <200808050037.41772.marshc187@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200808050037.41772.marshc187@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 04:47:36 -0000 I guess what you are looking for is xconsole. On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 12:37:41AM +0200, mcassar wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"