On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Tom Uffner<t...@uffner.com> 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. _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"