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xconsole - monitor system console messages with
X
xconsole [-toolkitoption ...] [-file file-name] [-notify] [-stripNonprint]
[-daemon] [-verbose] [-exitOnFail]
The xconsole program displays
messages which are usually sent to /dev/console.
Xconsole accepts
all of the standard X Toolkit command line options along with the additional
options listed below:
- -file file-name
- 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.
This
program uses the Athena Text widget, look in the Athena Widget Set documentation
for controlling it.
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
- 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.
<XRoot>/lib/X11/app-defaults/XConsole
- specifies required resources
X(1)
, xrdb(1)
, Athena Text widget
Keith Packard (MIT X Consortium)
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