Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!purdue!bu-cs!buengc!bph From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: DecWindows (and how to get around them)?? Message-ID: <4405@buengc.BU.EDU> Date: 30 Sep 89 18:27:14 GMT References: <1989Sep30.143118.15880@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <12248@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Reply-To: bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) Followup-To: comp.unix.ultrix Organization: Boston Univ. Col. of Eng. Lines: 19 In article <12248@boulder.Colorado.EDU> hartzell@boulder.Colorado.EDU (George Hartzell) writes: >Doing this > cat -u /dev/xcons >in what you want to be your console window will grab all of the >console output to that window. I was using it in the background for a >while and found that it wasn't getting killed when I logged out like the >other things that that window started up were (twm, xclock, xload), so that >I would eventually have a number of them hanging around fighting over the >console output. I haven't looked into that yet. > >Let me know what you find out about doing it right. It still makes the Xqdsg server barf. I'm really tired of rebooting, too. --Blair "SPR! SPR! SPR! Okay, where's all the forms gone to?"