Damyan Ivanov <[email protected]> writes: > -=| Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn, Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 09:43:28PM +0200 |=- >> Then it's the other thing: cluttering the console. I do understand >> messaging is important. But 'logger' should be a better way to achieve >> that. >> >> # tail -f /var/log/syslog >> >> in a desktop terminal, push a button and watch the show. No need to >> switch to a console to look for messages. I understand there are some >> cases where switching to a virtual console may leed to not being able to >> switch back to X. > > I think I see a misunderstanding here. > > This particular case of writing to the console is on purpose. It is > used when there is no X session recognized and the console is the only > way to notify the user of the event. Note: notification, not logging. > It is a console version of the notification area baloon in a typical > graphical desktop environment.
Correct. I only run X on demand for the occasional PDF of broken web page; most of my time I spend on the console (as the Subject hints). _______________________________________________ Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel
