>>>>> Dan Espen writes:
D> Tim Wadsworth <Tim.Wadsworth_at_cambridge.simoco.com> writes:
> Hi,
>
> To display messages from fvwm on a workstation, I used to use
> xconsole. I believe that fvwm2 has a module, FvwmConsole, which gets
> started by default, that performs a similar function.
D> FvwmConsole does not perform a similar function:
D> The FvwmConsole allows the user to type fvwm commands into xterm, and
D> have them executed immediately. These commands are usually specfified
D> in the .fvwmrc file, or are bound to menu/mouse items as specified in
D> that file. This tools is particularly useful for testing new
D> configuration ideas, or for implementing temporary changes to your
D> environment.
> I am now using fvwm2 to manage an X-terminal screen, but of course,
> /dev/console is not readable by me, and even if it were, it would have
> everybody else's messages too.
>
> How can I achieve a similar effect?
>
> Currently my .xsession (which is run by xdm) logs *some* of the messages
> to a file, but others such as
> fbconsole: open /dev/console: Permission denied
> go to /var/tmp/xdm-errors.
>
> My question is really threefold:
> 1. Why do the messages go to different places, ie. why are the
> fbconsole (presumably fbconsole == FvwmConsole?) messages immune
> to my redirect?
> 2. How do I get all of the messages to go to the same place, and
> 3. How do I display them in a window on my X-terminal?
related questions below
D> You need to run something as your console. You can still use
D> xconsole, or you can use one of the many substitutes including xterm
D> with the -C flag.
which are ?
I use:
*FvwmButtons(10x2, Swallow (UseOld, NoClose, Respawn) "Console"
"Exec console -display $HOSTDISPLAY -geometry 70x5-1500-1500")
with console being:
#!/usr/local/lbin/tcsh
exec xterm -name Console -C ${argv[1-]} &
on my main machine, and
#!/usr/local/lbin/tcsh
exec rsh vta_host -n "exec xterm -name Console ${argv[1-]}
</dev/null >&/dev/null &"
on any remote machine since I can't access /dev/console from there.
So I have a small window to both
show me console messages, if I'm on my main machine
enter commands (i.e: start netscape & others as I see fit)
I'd like to extend this to:
show me fvwm2 messages
enter fvwm2 commands
The latter can be accomplished with FvwmPipe and echoing to that pipe.
The former is the problem.
How do I get xterm to show me not only the messages to the console, but
also messages which are echoed to another pipe/file ???
I could redirect the fvwm2 output to the console, but that's not
acceptable, if somebody else is using that machine (& the console).
I'd find it rather rude if sombody wrote his errors to my console.
(and permissions woiuldn't allow that anyway)
Any suggestions?
Can I redirect /dev/Console to another pipe (say ~/.messages) and also pipe
fvwm2 output there?
Can I get xterm (or any substitute - which ? -) to read special messages
from an arbitrary pipe?
HELP !!! (been trying this for some time now, but never found a way)
albrecht
(the solution for this problem would eliminate any use of FvwmConsole and
save much screen space)
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Received on Wed Nov 13 1996 - 12:09:53 GMT