Folks, Well, I apologise: it seems I did indeed have the file mentioned. I've changed the entry and it fixed the problem I had.
Thanks for the help; even though the reponse was less than friendly it was still useful. On Sat, 27 Feb 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >[adjusted to look better on my screen:] >> After this morning's apt-get dist-upgrade, a whole bunch of X >> windows stuff got replaced. (I'm running slink.) Now, when I start up, >> I get a console window displaying various system messages. This shows >> up in the lower right corner of my display when the log-in banner is >> running and is still there when kde, my window manager, sets up. >> >> What's this about? I find it distracting and would like to get >> rid of it. > >I think you answered your own question: xconsole is a continously updated >system log displayer. You could always RTFM to find out more, but since you >seem to have an aversion to security I'll stop heckling you about it and >just answer your question. > >The file /etc/X11/xdm/xdm.options probably has the line > run-xconsole > >which, when commented out (#) will get xdm (the program that provides that >"login banner") to stop starting and running xconsole. > >Hope that helps, > >Alan >[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 'til next we type... HAVE FUN!! -- Jesse