From: scowen@wfpc3.la.asu.edu (Paul A. Scowen)
Subject: Re: xwindows console/tty
Organization: Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Arizona State University
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 16:52:38 GMT

In article <1992Sep8.000338.23634@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>, hymowitz@whatever.cs.jhu.edu (Hymie!) writes:
|> can somebody tell me where to find a man page for xconsole or the .xsession
|> file?  my system has xconsole but no man page, and i don't know how
|> the .xsession file works.

Man, I don't know who put in your X environment but they didn't do a very good
job.  Here's the manpage:


   Release 5                                                      XCONSOLE(1)



   NAME
     xconsole - monitor system console messages

   SYNOPSIS
     xconsole[-toolkitoption ...] [-file file-name] [-notify] [- stripNonprint]
     [-daemon] [-verbose] [-exitOnFail]

   DESCRIPTION
     The xconsole program displays messages which are usually sent to
     /dev/console.

   OPTIONS
     Xconsole accepts all of the standard X Toolkit command line options
     along with the additional options listed below:

     -file filename
             To monitor some other device, use this option to specify the
             device name.  This does not work on regular files as they are
             always ready to be read from.

     -notify -nonotify
             When new data are received from the console and the notify
             option is set, the icon name of the application has " *"
             appended, so that it is evident even when the application is
             iconified.  -notify is the default.

     -daemon This option causes xconsole to place itself in the background,
             using fork/exit.

     -verbose
             When set, this option directs xconsole to display an informative
             message in the first line of the text buffer.

     -exitOnFail
             When set, this option directs xconsole to exit when it is unable
             to redirect the console output.

   X DEFAULTS
     This program uses the Athena Text widget, look in the Athena Widget Set
     documentation for controlling it.

   WIDGETS
     In order to specify resources, it is useful to know the hierarchy of the
     widgets which compose xconsole.  In the notation below, indentation
     indicates hierarchical structure.  The widget class name is given first,
     followed by the widget instance name.

     XConsole  xconsole
          XConsole  text

   ENVIRONMENT

     DISPLAY to get the default host and display number.

     XENVIRONMENT
             to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global
             resources stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property.

   FILES
     /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/XConsole - specifies required resources

   SEE ALSO
     X(1), xrdb(1), Athena Text widget

   COPYRIGHT
     Copyright 1988, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
     See X(1) for a full statement of rights and permissions.

   AUTHOR
     Keith Packard (MIT X Consortium)

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