[plug] xconsole question

[Leon Brooks]

Gavan Blunt wrote:
> Hi all, I just joined the list and had a look in the archives,
> can't find an answer to a question I've been trying to figure
> out for ages.  I know how to direct console output to xconsole
> if I manually start X, but how do I do it if I boot into the
> gui?

You would have to change an xdm setting. On my (Mandrake) machine, you should be
able to edit /etc/X11/Xsession and add one word ("/dev/console") to the for
statement on about the 8th line of the file. Most RedHattish machines should be
very much the same.

The process I used to arrive at this conclusion was:

1. man xdm
2. hunt for xdm-config or similar (find /etc/X11 -iname "*xdm*")
3. read /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config, see it invoking Xsession
4. Read /etc/X11/Xsession

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