Alan,
I tried xconsole, it comes up, but it doesn't show anything
when I run an application that I expect to produce some
messages. Also, it doesn't accept any keyboard input.
Kostas
Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> 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
>>>> Kostas
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