[comp.unix.ultrix] console under x11r4

bill@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu (Bill Roth) (11/12/90)

  How do you properly set up the console on a decstation 3100 running
X11R4 so that a message to the console gets written to a window instead
of blasted across the screen?

Thanks.


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iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias) (11/12/90)

In article <1990Nov11.230301.5223@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu> bill@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu (Bill Roth) writes:
>
>  How do you properly set up the console on a decstation 3100 running
>X11R4 so that a message to the console gets written to a window instead
>of blasted across the screen?

I use xconsole.  It pops up a window when something is printed to the
console, and you can tell the window to go away easily.  xconsole is
in the contrib part of the MIT distribution.  If you use xlock to
lock your screen, you'll want to get the new distribution of xlock
from expo.lcs.mit.edu.  Using the old one, xconsole would pop it's
window up on top of the lock screen.  The new xlock keeps the window
hidden until you unlock the screen.


Mike Iglesias
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