2 LFS VERSION: Any if X is installed.
3 AUTHOR: ktb <x.y.f@home.com>
7 Xconsole is included with X. It's used to monitor system console
8 messages on the desktop. This is one way to set it up.
12 The first thing to do is create a named pipe to send the Sysklogd
13 information xconsole will display.
15 # mkfifo /dev/xconsole
16 # chgrp tty /dev/xconsole
17 # chmod 644 /dev/xconsole
19 Permissions should be as follows.
22 prw-r--r-- 1 root tty 0 Aug 19 13:07 /dev/xconsole
24 The next step is to edit /etc/syslog.conf to set what you want outputted
25 to /dev/xconsole. I like to dump everything with a priority of alert or
26 higher, so I add the following line.
30 To make the change take effect restart Sysklogd.
32 # /etc/init.d/sysklogd restart
34 Last but not least we need to fire up xconsole itself.
36 $ xconsole -file /dev/xconsole
38 If you aren't happy with the text window space, edit the "XConsole" file
39 which is probably in /etc/X11/app-defaults/XConsole.
40 Set text window to the desired size. For example:
45 Xconsole also takes the geometry option so you might end up with a
46 command similar to the one below, to put in your ~/.xinitrc file.
48 xconsole -file /dev/xconsole -geometry +67+640 &
50 See "man xconsole" for more customizations.