Alan,
I tried xterm -C, but its behavior is peculiar. First, with
or without the -C, it takes about 7 sec to start up, and
maxes the cpu. In comparison, gnome-terminal starts almost
instantaneously.
Second, when I specify the -C, it doesn't seem connected to
/dev/console: when I run an application that under the CDE
and Solaris 10 produces output on the console (dtterm -C), I
see nothing in the xterm console (OpenSolaris 2008.11).
Are there any plans to add the -C option to gnome-terminal?
Kostas
Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> xconsole is a console monitor, not an interactive terminal.
> If you want an interactive terminal, /usr/X11/bin/xterm -C
>
> Kostas Oikonomou wrote:
>> 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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