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List:       fvwm
Subject:    Re: FVWM: X-terminal question
From:       Richard Lister <listerrj () helios ! aston ! ac ! uk>
Date:       1996-11-28 11:19:07
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On Tue, 12 Nov 1996 18:08:59 GMT
Tim Wadsworth <Tim.Wadsworth@cambridge.simoco.com> 
wrote concerning 'FVWM: X-terminal question':
> Hi,
> 
> To display messages from fvwm on a workstation, I used to use
> xconsole. I believe that fvwm2 has a module, FvwmConsole, which gets
> started by default, that performs a similar function.
> 
> I am now using fvwm2 to manage an X-terminal screen, but of course,
> /dev/console is not readable by me, and even if it were, it would have
> everybody else's messages too.
> 
> How can I achieve a similar effect?

If you want to get the messages from fvwm you could use the 'xsession'
program (from your local X mirror, or ftp.x.org).

This runs as your session manager and also starts the window manager.
For example, as the last line in my ~/.xsession I have:
  xsession -defaultWM fvwm2

xsession has a little window which display fvwm messages, and also
provides a menu to switch between different window managers (very
useful for debugging purposes).

Ric

Richard J. Lister, Research Assistant    
Neural Computing Research Group, Aston University
r.j.lister@aston.ac.uk 
http://www.ncrg.aston.ac.uk/~listerrj/ 
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