From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 25 15:20:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA24967 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 15:20:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (fallout.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA24952 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 15:20:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA21011; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 17:20:15 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 17:20:15 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber To: Mr M P Searle cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Console messages in an xterm In-Reply-To: <28612.199610251513@crocus.csv.warwick.ac.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, Mr M P Searle wrote: > a separate window, and only shows console messages, not ordinary > messages that are sent there as they are from stuff that has > loaded from .xinitrc (startx is in my login) Start xconsole and then redirect all output to /dev/console. All the stuff you want will display in the xconsole window. I use xdm, and have it set up to do essentially the same thing and it works fine for my purposes. -john == jfieber@indiana.edu =========================================== == http://fallout.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ================