Hi Ken -- You wrote: > I am having difficulty getting the xconsole to work running in > fvwm (or any window manager). I use a .xsession file in my home > directory. Here is that file: > > ----------------- begin .xsession file ------------- > #!/bin/bash > [snip] > xconsole -exitOnFail -g 490x200-20-50 & > -------------------------- end .xsession file ------------- [snip] > > At first I did not have the "exitOnFail" in the xconsole line, > and I would get an xconsole window that said > "Couldn't open console". > With the "exitOnFail", I just get no window at all. > Your /dev/xconsole should look like this: prw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 25 06:37 /dev/xconsole|
If not, execute: mknod -m 644 /dev/xconsole p Be sure that the xconsole line is uncommented in /etc/syslog.conf: auth.*;daemon.*;mail.*;news.crit;news.err;news.notice;*.=debug;*.=info;\ *.=notice;*.=warn;cron.none |/dev/xconsole I start xconsole with this: xconsole -file /dev/xconsole If you try bringing up xconsole and see nothing, then it's possible that you've already been logging messages for a while and the pipe filled up, so syslog quit sending messages to it. To start over again, issue this command: kill -SIGHUP `cat /var/run/syslog.pid` HTH, Susan Kleinmann
