No, virtual console is not a separate window, but switching the entire
screen to another display - if you've used BSD or Linux, it's what
Ctrl-Alt-F1/F2/etc. do there.
I think /usr/X11/bin/xconsole is closer to what you're looking for.
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
Kostas Oikonomou wrote:
> 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
>>>
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