Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!ncar!groucho.ucar.edu!russ From: russ@groucho.ucar.edu (Russ Rew) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Console output on a SUN 3/50 running xdm Summary: use -C option to xterm Message-ID: <1080@ncar.ucar.edu> Date: 5 Dec 88 14:55:58 GMT References: <14359@lll-winken.llnl.gov> Sender: news@ncar.ucar.edu Reply-To: russ@groucho.UCAR.EDU (Russ Rew) Organization: UNIDATA Project/NCAR, Boulder, CO Lines: 20 In article <14359@lll-winken.llnl.gov> brooks@maddog.llnl.gov () writes: > >Having managed to get xdm running on a SUN 3/50 running SUNOS 4.0 >and X11R3, I note that console output (su notifications and the >like) causes the screen to get hosed and one has to use xrefresh >to fix things up. Under the old X10R4 system we ran console output >appeared in your "login" window. Is there some way one can have >console output appear in some sort of "console window" under >X11R3 started up with xdm? > Just make sure you use the "-C" option when invoking the xterm to which you want console output sent. For example, the last line in my ".xsession" file starts up a console window with a login shell: exec xterm -title login -geometry 80x10+1+20 -rv -C -ls -- Russ Rew, Unidata Project russ@unidata.ucar.edu University Corporation for Atmospheric Research ...!ncar!unidata!russ PO Box 3000 Boulder, CO 80307