Re: FVWM: X-terminal question

From: Richard Lister <listerrj_at_helios.aston.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 11:19:07 +0000

On Tue, 12 Nov 1996 18:08:59 GMT
Tim Wadsworth <Tim.Wadsworth_at_cambridge.simoco.com>
wrote concerning 'FVWM: X-terminal question':
> 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.
>
> 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?

If you want to get the messages from fvwm you could use the 'xsession'
program (from your local X mirror, or ftp.x.org).

This runs as your session manager and also starts the window manager.
For example, as the last line in my ~/.xsession I have:
  xsession -defaultWM fvwm2

xsession has a little window which display fvwm messages, and also
provides a menu to switch between different window managers (very
useful for debugging purposes).

Ric

Richard J. Lister, Research Assistant
Neural Computing Research Group, Aston University
r.j.lister_at_aston.ac.uk
http://www.ncrg.aston.ac.uk/~listerrj/
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Received on Thu Nov 28 1996 - 05:25:16 GMT

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