From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 6 01:37:27 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02BFC1065670 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 2009 01:37:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from unixmania@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f220.google.com (mail-bw0-f220.google.com [209.85.218.220]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E65F8FC18 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 2009 01:37:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz20 with SMTP id 20so504772bwz.9 for ; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:37:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=+d1MkQTbuljZOIdVgDlFyi/fgmuh9oZTFEvLrRUN+DI=; b=gDJGWe6J/9I/Qzy0WsfXPVHnRDtEwQAxLmBLMGfbWrbYwzK84mn/ZMBj0V9bufh5eB ptk8yMMkEsn26QFMF5zw/nb1QoqHTAzaa09tm1KPRtWjIFIn144FEP+Tsy7/HSCTB+Ru uuFd7iBItSJorYeJO/CMZhE4cpD9ejieJFDEw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=h9YNgr7TkLFq6TfUlsy6Vv+VKqgViACOo33hLgErBzx5Ddy7gSelVM14GZxZwcuoSh 2hj9EVI6T9QH73+vI3WaxkRT5rxikfNfuc9bGA3SzutM6PlR+z491a8S1tl7WnB21agd Xl+h+lLab0T1M/HVI8UxxGyViSfT2ZspELvq4= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.239.170.68 with SMTP id r4mr925093hbe.12.1249522644976; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:37:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4A79F0AC.4000103@uffner.com> References: <4A74D10A.9000507@uffner.com> <200908031312.14400.mel.flynn+fbsd.ports@mailing.thruhere.net> <4A77A67D.1050101@uffner.com> <200908032207.37816.mel.flynn+fbsd.ports@mailing.thruhere.net> <4A77D926.2070304@uffner.com> <4A79F0AC.4000103@uffner.com> Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 22:37:24 -0300 Message-ID: From: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" To: Tom Uffner Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: x11-toolkits/xview (actually contool) X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 01:37:27 -0000 On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Tom Uffner 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. -- My preferred quotation of Robert Louis Stevenson is "You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs". Not because I like the omelettes, but because I like the sound of eggs being broken.