Thank you Hemantha. I think the vconsole is closer to what
I want, i.e., a permanent window on my Gnome desktop, say in
the upper left-hand corner, where system messages etc, go.
I got that in SXCE builds by specifying
''/usr/dt/bin/dtterm -C'' as a startup service (I think
that's the correct term) in Gnome.
The vconsole documentation at the link you provided is
somewhat opaque :-), so it's not totally clear to me if the
modified Xorg binary will allow me to do the same thing.
Kostas
Hemantha Holla wrote:
> Kostas Oikonomou wrote:
>> Is there any way to have a system console under Gnome and OpenSolaris
>> 2008.11?
>> With the SXCE builds, you could use /usr/dt/bin/dtterm -C. But
>> OpenSolaris has eliminated all of the CDE stuff. And Gnome terminal
>> doesn't have a ''console'''option.
> Roundabout way would be to go in 'Failsafe terminal' session as root and
> disable gdm temporarily ( 'svcadm disable -t gdm') which will drop you
> into console and then doing 'svcadm enable gdm' once you are done.
>>
>> Also, does anyone know if this is something that will be added in the
>> future? The console is not popular with Linux or Windows, but very
>> useful for error messages.
> Take a look at the vconsole project [
> http://opensolaris.org/os/project/vconsole ]. I've successfully used the
> Xorg binary, from inside the tarball in the downloads section on that
> page, with Osol2008.11 to get consoles with Ctrl-Alt-F1,F2...
>
> HTH
> Hemantha
>>
>> Kostas
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