Krzysztof Luban'ski wrote:
On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 18:44 +0100, Martin Waller wrote:
Am trying to run xconsole as normal user as I have done on other
versions of debian.
When I try to run it on an etch box it pops up as expected but with the
message 'Can't open console' in it.
Now, on my s
On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 18:44 +0100, Martin Waller wrote:
> Am trying to run xconsole as normal user as I have done on other
> versions of debian.
>
> When I try to run it on an etch box it pops up as expected but with the
> message 'Can't open console' in it.
>
> Now, on my sarge box, which is d
Basicaly xconsole is alright (beside that it takes space from the task
bar), I thought maybe there is some programm which integrates just a
little bit better to KDE (like docking to the panel)...
- Martin
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, s. keeling wrote:
Why do you need a kde app which replaces xconsole?
Incoming from Martin Fluch:
>
> Is there a possibility to get the messages send to /dev/xconsole vissible
> on the root window whilest running KDE (in my case the latest version
> comming with Debian unstable)?
>
> Or alternatively, is there a KDE application which replaces the "xconsole"
> ap
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Patrick Kirk wrote:
> I really wish I could stop that xconsole loading but I can't dind it
> anywhere no matter how mcu grepping /etc/X11 I do. How does one stop
> it appearing?
It seems to be started by /etc/X11/Xsetup in sid. I swear there was a
way to shut it off in a co
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 01:01:52AM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote:
>On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Michael Kahle wrote:
>
>This is normal. It only reads anything you send at /dev/xconsole. You
>can have X start this automatically, with a little tweek (look around in
>/etc/X11), and you can get your logs
Baloo, Shaelh, and David,
Thank you all for your answers. I asked this question to the list late
last night after I couldn't figure out why I couldn't get a terminal.
Shortly after I posted I installed xterm and I was all set. As you
all pointed out, this is not the program I was looking for.
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Michael Kahle wrote:
> I made the decision today to install XFree86 with afterstep for a lightweight
> window manager. I managed to get everything working fine, but when I
> launch XConsole it won't let me put any input into the xconsole window.
This is normal. It only read
On 18-Apr-2002 Michael Kahle wrote:
> I have been using Debian Woody now for about 2 months. This is installed
> on an old P5 166 w/ 64 mb of ram.
>
> I made the decision today to install XFree86 with afterstep for a lightweight
> window manager. I managed to get everything working fine, but wh
On 0, Michael Kahle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have been using Debian Woody now for about 2 months. This is installed
> on an old P5 166 w/ 64 mb of ram.
>
> I made the decision today to install XFree86 with afterstep for a lightweight
> window manager. I managed to get everything working f
on Fri, 28 Dec 2001 03:37:18PM -0500, Brian Nelson insinuated:
> Well, that's not my only beef with WMaker. Also on that list:
[...]
> - won't save the omnipresent attribute across sessions (I had to hack
what version are you running? i've got 0.41, and it saves that
attribute fine ...
<[EMA
"Karsten M. Self" writes:
> on Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 11:17:46AM -0500, Noah Meyerhans ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 09:50:58AM -0500, Brian Nelson wrote:
> > >
> > > No, but it's a known bug in wmaker that's been there for a while. For
> > > me, making any window omni
on Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 11:17:46AM -0500, Noah Meyerhans ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 09:50:58AM -0500, Brian Nelson wrote:
> >
> > No, but it's a known bug in wmaker that's been there for a while. For
> > me, making any window omnipresent will pin the cpu usage at 100%.
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 09:50:58AM -0500, Brian Nelson wrote:
>
> No, but it's a known bug in wmaker that's been there for a while. For
> me, making any window omnipresent will pin the cpu usage at 100%. I
> gave up on wmaker and switched to KDE.
>
Actually, it is trivial to work around. Ther
wrenkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I really like Windowmaker, and the recent release of 0.80 has caused me
> to give it another shot. the reason I left it was because it was a CPU
> hog. Whenever I ran it, a few minutes after starting up it would shoot
> to 30% CPU usage, and xfree68_s3 (The Tr
Till Neunhoeffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> Oct 11 11:26:18 wetap50 kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for
[...]
> This happens on several machines, all of which are running potato with a
> 2.2.17pre6 from the debian kernel source package.
[...]
It is a known problem in 2.2.16 and s
On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> Xconsole is supposed to show messages coming from syslogd(8). For it
> to work under linux, an entry has to be made in /etc/syslog.conf
> looking like this:
>
> # The named pipe /dev/xconsole is for the `xconsole' utility. To use it,
> # you must invo
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 08:29:46PM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
:> "john" == john gennard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
:
:john> KDE is installed and seems to behave as before except that on
:john> booting xconsole screen appears with no contents and a new
:john> screen starts each time - I now ha
> "john" == john gennard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
john> KDE is installed and seems to behave as before except that on
john> booting xconsole screen appears with no contents and a new
john> screen starts each time - I now have 8, one on top of the
john> other. Whilst these can be minimized o
On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 04:14:03PM -0700, Nick wrote:
> hello list:
>
> my xconsole stopped functioning properly after upgrading to potato
>
> chit says: Couldn't open console
>
> i have tried to remake it w/ the following
>
> mkfifo /dev/xconsole
> tells me file already exists
> it can't seem
On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 12:59:08AM +0200, Vitux wrote:
> I see. Security isn't such a big issue on this stand-alone
> home-use box, but anyway: how do I find out which group owns
> /dev/xconsole?
ls -l /dev/xconsole
Should be root.adm and be a fifo /dev/xconsole|
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Brad wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 03:47:53PM +0200, Vitux wrote:
> > Previously (in slink, 4 days ago), Xconsole was run when
> > launching fvwm. Now, it doesn't start automagically, and gives
> > an error: Couldn't open console when I start it manually.
> > I find it quite annoying; I've go
On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 03:47:53PM +0200, Vitux wrote:
> Previously (in slink, 4 days ago), Xconsole was run when
> launching fvwm. Now, it doesn't start automagically, and gives
> an error: Couldn't open console when I start it manually.
> I find it quite annoying; I've gotten used to keeping an e
if you didn't specify the file option, try:
xconsole -file /dev/xconsole
On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 03:47:53PM +0200, Vitux wrote:
> Hi Debs
> Previously (in slink, 4 days ago), Xconsole was run when
> launching fvwm. Now, it doesn't start automagically, and gives
> an error: Couldn't open console
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 10:48:20AM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using xdm to login on my linux box. For installing some X-related
> stuff, I had stopped xdm and then restarted it. Since then I am not
> getting the xconsole window for all login accounts. Typing xconsole
> gives me a wi
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 07:32:29PM -0600, David J. Kanter wrote:
> > Yesterday I updated my XFree86 packages, and now the iconized xconsole
> > window that used to appear when starting fvwm is gone. If I log on as root,
> > it's there but as a regular user it's not.
> >
> > What happened?
>
> I
On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 07:32:29PM -0600, David J. Kanter wrote:
> Yesterday I updated my XFree86 packages, and now the iconized xconsole
> window that used to appear when starting fvwm is gone. If I log on as root,
> it's there but as a regular user it's not.
>
> What happened?
I'm guessing, but
Some what recently, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote about xconsole "couldn't open console"
>:) After an apt-get upgrade (using potato) attempts to open xconsole
>:) show the above error. I can't pinpoint the exact time of the problem
>:) because with Linux I went weeks between boots,
To reply to my own message, what I figured out is I needed to move
"-file /dev/console" to the beginning of the command like so,
"+ "I" exec xconsole -file /dev/console" now it's working fine.
kent
ktb wrote:
>
> I have a line in my ~/.fvwm2/init.hook file,
>
> + "I" exec xconsole -geomet
On 20/11/99 Brian Servis wrote:
I fixed it by adding my user to the adm group. I don't know the
reasononing behind having xconsole as group adm though. It is the
only device in /dev with that group ownership. Remember that passwords
and other private info can be put on the logs so don't make i
*- On 20 Nov, Chia-Sheng Chang wrote about "xconsole problem"
> Hi, all,
> I run xdm on my computer but every time I login, xconsole always
> responses "can not open console". How to solve this??
>
% ls -l /dev/xconsole
0 prw-r-1 root adm 0 Nov 20 08:30 /dev/xco
> I know how to get wterm to become transparent, but what I should have
> said was how can wterm's transparency and other options be applied to
> xconsole. I'm looking for some way to alter the command
> /usr/X11R6/bin/xconsole -notify . -file /dev/xconsole to incorporate
> wterm. Thanks for t
> I know how to get wterm to become transparent, but what I should have said
> was how can wterm's transparency and other options be applied to xconsole.
are you sure it was really xconsole that was transparent?
Maybe it was just an eterm with "tail -f logfilename" running in it?
Marcin
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Emil Soleyman-Zomalan wrote:
>
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
>
> I know how to get wterm to become transparent, but what I should have said
> was how can wterm's transparency and other options be applied to xconsole.
> I'm looking for some way to alter the command /usr/X11R6/bin/xconsole
>
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I know how to get wterm to become transparent, but what I should have said
was how can wterm's transparency and other options be applied to xconsole.
I'm looking for some way to alter the command /usr/X11R6/bin/xconsole
- -notify . -file /dev/xconsole to inc
Emil Soleyman-Zomalan wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have seen screenshots of themes at Themes.org with their
> xconsoles being transparent. I went ahead and got wterm through
> apt but do not know how to "exactly" go about doing it. I was
> wondering if anyone can guide me
*- On 30 Mar, ktb wrote about "xconsole placement"
> I have been working on this one for awhile and can't come up with an
> answer. Xconsole is iconified when I start X and when I deiconify it,
> it opens off screen. What I want is xconsole to be open and in view at
> the bottom of my screen when
Linh Dang writes:
> Why the PAP (ppp) passwd is shown by xconsole. /var/log/ppp can only be
> read by adm group, but xconsole can be seen by anyone. Isn't it a
> security issue ???
There's a bug in pppd that cause it to ignore efforts to tell it not to
show PAP passwords. Comment out the 'debug'
On Mon, Jan 04, 1999 at 01:31:38PM -0500, Robert Rati wrote:
> I just moved my system from one HD to another, and have been able to
> re-make all the devs in /dev but xconsole. I can't seem to find anything
> in MAKEDEV that will make that. Anyone know how I can get /dev/xconsole?
It's just name
On 04-Jan-99 Robert Rati wrote:
> I just moved my system from one HD to another, and have been able to
> re-make all the devs in /dev but xconsole. I can't seem to find anything
> in MAKEDEV that will make that. Anyone know how I can get /dev/xconsole?
>
it is a named pipe (fifo) so the mkfifo
Hi!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> After I upgraded to slink, my xconsole doesn't start automatically any
> more (and doesn't appear on the xdm login either)
>
> The only "trace" I found is the line "run-xconsole" in /etc/X11/config
/etc/X11/config ist split into several files.
you ne
On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 02:38:12PM -0500, Eric Jensen wrote:
> I don't understand this problem at all. I remember back when I ran bo
> that the xconsole started automatically when I started X and it reported
> things like remote logins and stuff. Now, it doesn't start automatically
> (which is fi
>> > >> I forgot to say that I'm using a ISDN card and my script use ippd !
>> > >> So the
>> > >> passwordis on /etc/ppp/isdn-auth !
>> >
>> > Do you have the option +pwlog enabled in /etc/isdn/ipppd.ippp0 ?
>> > Disabling this makes the passwords to _not_ be logged.
>>
>> Unfortunally, I
Jaakko Niemi wrote:
>
> >> Daniel Martin at cush wrote:
> >>
> >> > The question, I think, is that you are concerned because when you dial
> >> > up, the password to your isp gets logged by the chat program, and so
> >> > appears in the xconsole window. You worry that anyone you give an
> >> > ac
>> Daniel Martin at cush wrote:
>>
>> > The question, I think, is that you are concerned because when you dial
>> > up, the password to your isp gets logged by the chat program, and so
>> > appears in the xconsole window. You worry that anyone you give an
>> > account to can call up xconsole and
Daniel Martin writes:
> Do you perhaps have the debug option uncommented in /etc/ppp/options?
> Or is there a "debug" in /etc/ppp/peers/provider?
'debug' is uncommented in the distributed /etc/ppp/options.
> That's the only thing in the ppp sources even looks like it could
> cause a password to a
Daniel Martin at cush wrote:
> Do you perhaps have the debug option uncommented in /etc/ppp/options?
> Or is there a "debug" in /etc/ppp/peers/provider?
>
It was a 'debug' in the /etc/ppp/peers/provider. I've commented it and
password (with all the other debug messages) disappeared from the
xcon
Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If your password is in pap-secrets it is supposed to remain just that --
> a secret. I never see my password come wizzing by on xconsole and I use
> pap too. So, now we need to figure out why. The \q only works in a
> chatscript.
Do you perhaps have the deb
Shaleh writes:
> If your password is in pap-secrets it is supposed to remain just that --
> a secret. I never see my password come wizzing by on xconsole and I use
> pap too. So, now we need to figure out why. The \q only works in a
> chatscript.
pppd logs the username and password in the clear
Shaleh wrote:
> pap too. So, now we need to figure out why. The \q only works in a
OK. I agree with that. I didn't give much importance to this, as I'm the
only one here. However, who knows what my girl-friend will want to do
some day, so better to protect myself. :)
Where should I look ? In
Ionut Borcoman at debian wrote:
> What to do if my password is in "pap-secrets" ? I can always see it in
> my xconsole window ! If I simply add an \q in pap-secrets at
> MyISPpasswd, the pppd will try to use qMyISPpasswd instead to hide it.
> (I also use KDE and like xconsole as it monitors my the
If your password is in pap-secrets it is supposed to remain just that --
a secret. I never see my password come wizzing by on xconsole and I use
pap too. So, now we need to figure out why. The \q only works in a
chatscript.
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Daniel Martin at cush wrote:
>
> The question, I think, is that you are concerned because when you dial
> up, the password to your isp gets logged by the chat program, and so
> appears in the xconsole window. You worry that anyone you give an
> account to can call up xconsole and thereby see your
Xconsole reads what you tell it to read. Normal setup has it watching
the equivalent to syslogd's output. This is set up in the syslogd.conf
file in /etc. Xconsole can be set to watch what ever file, fifo, stdin
you set it to watch. So if you like you can make it xconsole -file
/var/log/message
Daniel Martin at cush wrote:
> The question, I think, is that you are concerned because when you dial
> up, the password to your isp gets logged by the chat program, and so
> appears in the xconsole window. You worry that anyone you give an
> account to can call up xconsole and thereby see your I
Nuno Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using Debian 1.3.1 and KDE Beta4.
> When I call the xconsole program I could almost activity on my machine
> but I think there's something wrong ...
>
> Sometimes on xconsole I could see my login and password as when I write
> them !
On Sat, 2 May 1998, Adam Shand wrote:
>
> > > is this a bug or have i done something wrong?
> >
> > Have you compiled your own tk8.0 binaries? If not, you could have the
> > wrong version of the tk8.0 package. Did you use any --force flags on dpkg
> > when installing tkman? You need at least ver
> > is this a bug or have i done something wrong?
>
> Have you compiled your own tk8.0 binaries? If not, you could have the
> wrong version of the tk8.0 package. Did you use any --force flags on dpkg
> when installing tkman? You need at least version 8.0p2-2 of the tk8.0
> package for tkman to wo
On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Adam Shand wrote:
>
> > Have you tried tkman? still, good old man is great :)
>
> just installed the debian package and now i get this message...
>
> badger(larry)> tkman
> Elide patch not installed in /usr/bin/wish8.0.
> You must apply the elided text patch to Tk and rebui
On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Adam Shand wrote:
>
> > Have you tried tkman? still, good old man is great :)
>
> just installed the debian package and now i get this message...
>
> badger(larry)> tkman
> Elide patch not installed in /usr/bin/wish8.0.
> You must apply the elided text patch to Tk and rebui
> Have you tried tkman? still, good old man is great :)
just installed the debian package and now i get this message...
badger(larry)> tkman
Elide patch not installed in /usr/bin/wish8.0.
You must apply the elided text patch to Tk and rebuild wish.
See the Makefile for more information.
is this
On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Adam Shand wrote:
>
> > I could have swonr I rea dthe man page
> > course I can't read it here (the linux machine I have here
> > at work is strictly text-only...so no X stuff)
>
> errr, you don't need X to read the man pages... in fact i hate xman.
> yick. just type 'm
> I could have swonr I rea dthe man page
> course I can't read it here (the linux machine I have here
> at work is strictly text-only...so no X stuff)
errr, you don't need X to read the man pages... in fact i hate xman.
yick. just type 'man syslog.conf' and you should be away laughing.
adam
I could have swonr I rea dthe man page
course I can't read it here (the linux machine I have here
at work is strictly text-only...so no X stuff)
and hmm...so its syslog that does that/
I should have known...
I need to configure that better anyway...hmmanother 2 hours and I can go
home
Once again I point you to the almighty man page. Also, read
/etc/syslogd.conf. If you are still lost, post back.
Stephen Carpenter wrote:
>
> This may be a silly Question but I figure it can't hurt to ask
> anyway...
> When I went to WPI last year they had allot of systems running DEC UNIX
> B is in the man page of what? I already checked xconsole's man page.. and
> there is nothing concerning colors in the app-defaults/XConsole file..
I believe that it says in there somewhere that xconsole understands most
of the standard xcommands... so if you do a 'man X' or 'man xterm' most of
On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Paul Miller wrote:
> I want to customize xconsole a little bit. Heres what I want to do:
> a) load in the lower left (1024x768)
> b) white text with black background
> c) displayed as part of the background; can't be iconified/moved, etc.
> window manager has no control over i
B is in the man page of what? I already checked xconsole's man page.. and
there is nothing concerning colors in the app-defaults/XConsole file..
-Paul
On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Shaleh wrote:
> A and B or in the man page, I would like to see C done. I believe it is
> wm specific.
>
> Paul Miller wro
A and B or in the man page, I would like to see C done. I believe it is
wm specific.
Paul Miller wrote:
>
> I want to customize xconsole a little bit. Heres what I want to do:
> a) load in the lower left (1024x768)
> b) white text with black background
> c) displayed as part of the background;
On Sun, 15 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm not sure when this happened but when I went back to using XDM
> upon boot I lost my xconsole. And my /dev/xconsole has been changed
> to /dev/xconsole|.
>
> Could anyone help me remedy this problem. The xdm man page mentioned
> an examp
On 02-Apr-97 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>
>I guess I don't quite understand the purpose of the xconsole program.
>I have put run-xconsole in /etc/X11/config and xdm starts xconsole in
>the lower right corner. It gets carried over when someone logs in,
>but nothin
On 1 Apr, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Re: I guess I don't quite understand the purpose of the xconsole program.
Re: I have put run-xconsole in /etc/X11/config and xdm starts xconsole in
Re: the lower right corner. It gets carried over when someone logs in,
Re: but nothing ever appears in it. What
On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, Ken Gaugler wrote:
> Still cannot seem to get xconsole to work properly. Appreciate any
> suggestions anyone can offer.
>
> I use xdm, which gives the usual login screen. There is also
> usually a blank window at the lower right side of the screen on
> the xdm login screen.
> "Nathan" == Nathan L Cutler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Nathan> When I run 'xconsole' as a non-root user, I get the
Nathan> following message (inside the xconsole window):
[...]
Nathan> Anybody have any idea what to do with this conundrum?
8<-
Pete Templin wrote:
>
> On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote:
>
> > I have noticed that xconsolo stops logging any kernel messages when the
> > daily
> > cron scripts get run and the current /var/log/messages file gets renamed to
> > /var/log/messages.0 and a new one gets created.
Hi Ken --
You wrote:
> I am having difficulty getting the xconsole to work running in
> fvwm (or any window manager). I use a .xsession file in my home
> directory. Here is that file:
>
> - begin .xsession file -
> #!/bin/bash
>
[snip]
> xconsole -exitOnFail -g 490x
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
you write:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]:[~] >dpkg -S xconsole
>xbase: /usr/X11R6/bin/xconsole
>xbase: /usr/X11R6/man/man1/xconsole.1x
>
>Hope that answers your question... That's the unstable xbase.
It is, of course, in the stable xbase as well.
Steve Early
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 9 May 1996, Yves Arrouye wrote:
> Is there a debian package with xconsole somewhere?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:[~] >dpkg -S xconsole
xbase: /usr/X11R6/bin/xconsole
xbase: /usr/X11R6/man/man1/xconsole.1x
Hope that answers your question... That's the unstable xbase.
Christian
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
> There is also an error on booting from syslogd about not being
> able to find /dev/xconsole. What is /dev/xconsole for?
/dev/xconsole is a named pipe that syslogd uses to communicate to
xconsole.
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> when I start X through xdm, I get a nice xconsole that displays all kind
> of messages. When I start xconsole by hand from an X-session (or from my
> .xsession-file), I don't get them. How do I get them anyway?
Messages from syslogd to xconsole are sent through the named pipe
/dev/xconsole. Y
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> when I start X through xdm, I get a nice xconsole that displays all kind
> of messages. When I start xconsole by hand from an X-session (or from my
> .xsession-file), I don't get them. How do I get them anyway?
>
> Maarten
>
I have a similar problem, but worse:
'e
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