On Mon, 29 Mar 1999 17:25:44 -0600
ktb <ktb_at_binary.net>
wrote concerning 'FVWM: xconsole placement at startup':
> I searched through the archives and found my question but no answer was
> given. I'm using Debian Slink, Fvwm2 2.0.46 and xdm. When Fvwm2 loads
> I have an iconified xconsole on my screen. When I deiconify xconsole it
> opens off my visible screen. I would like to set it up so that xconsole
> is deiconified and centered on my screen at start up. There is nothing
> about xconsole in my .fvwm2rc file. When I did start xconsole from this
> file it was present on screen but blank, no data written in it. When I
> use startx instead of xdm to start the x-session there is no xconsole
> present. Does anyone know where xconsole is starting from so I can edit
> the file and how I can get it to load as I would like? Please cc my
> with replies.
Dunno about Debian, but on my RedHat box the xdm files are in
/etc/X11/xdm. Also /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm is a symlink to this.
You probably want to edit Xsetup_0, which is a script that basically
starts xconsole with a specific geometry.
Ric
Richard J Lister, Georgetown Institute for Cognitive and Computational Sciences
Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20007, USA
Phone: +1 202-687 2878
Email: ric_at_giccs.georgetown.edu
Web:
http://www.giccs.georgetown.edu/~ric/
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Received on Tue Mar 30 1999 - 09:41:45 BST