Nathan Kinkade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 06:13:01PM +0100, Benjamin Walkenhorst wrote: > > Steven Friedrich wrote: > > > > >I know I can Control-Alt-F1 to go back to the console, but is there a way > > >to see these messages in an xterm or something? > > > > > > > > xconsole > > > > When xdm starts, xconsole gets started, too, on my machine, > > I can't remember doing anything to get this behaviour, though. > > > > Kind regards, > > Benjamin > > Keep in mind that /dev/console may only be readable by root. You might > have to change permissions on the device, or perhaps launch xconsole as > the root user. There may be other ways to get around this. I just > throw this into the mix as a problem that you may encounter.
The default xdm configuration runs xconsole from Xsetup (which runs as root) before starting the user's startup script. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
