Hi Stephen,
I feel happy to let you know that I've root caused why root-tail isn't
able
to display the text on the X window.
The X version shipped with Sarge is veresion 4.3 which has loose support for
UTF encoding. AFAIK X.org's implemention has better/full support for UTF
encoding.root-tail was working fine for me earlier because earlier my locale was set to "en_US". I had recently changed it to use the UTF encoding i.e. "en_US.UTF-8" root-tail was able to render UTF encoded fonts but the X wasn't, so there wasn't anything displayed on the windows of X. Note: Debian by default tries to set en_US.UTF-8 as the locale. I'm closing the bug but if you aren't convinced you can re-open it. I would be interested to know what makes you say that root-tail wasn't working for you on KDE and GNOME. Cheers! rrs On Friday 03 Jun 2005 6:49 am, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Ritesh Raj Sarraf said: > > Suddenly root-tail stopped displaying on KDE's root window. > > And not only KDE, it doesn't display on other DM's root window too like > > IceWM and FVWM. > > I'm surprised it ever displayed on KDE's root window :) > > My understanding is that KDE does an overlay over the actual root > window, and root tail is working, but it's painting the real root window > underneath of that. I am surprised that it doesn't work in IceWM and > FVW any more, however. I will investigate and get back to you. > > > Here /dev/xconsole is a fifo to which syslog keeps logging. > > Yes, that is the default. > > > This setup had been working perfectly fine for months. It looks like > > recent X upgrades have broken it. If not root-tail, what package should > > I file the bug for ? > > Here is as appropriate as any - it would be great if it would work > properly with the 'virtual root' overlay that GNOME and KDE use. > Nothing has changed in root-tail in months, however. -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com Gnupg Key ID: 04F130BC "Stealing logic from one person is plagiarism, stealing from many is research." "Necessity is the mother of invention."
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