Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!convex.UUCP!root From: root@convex.UUCP (Superuser) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Lost mail for you Message-ID: <9006071722.AA14686@sushi> Date: 7 Jun 90 17:22:08 GMT Sender: root@athena.mit.edu (Wizard A. Root) Organization: The Internet Lines: 50 From pescadero.stanford.edu!expo.lcs.mit.edu!xpert-mailer Fri Jun 1 12:07:33 1990 remote from convex Received: by sushi (5.51/7.0) id AA01451; Fri, 1 Jun 90 12:07:33 CDT Received: by convex.COM (5.51/4.7) id AA05697; Fri, 1 Jun 90 12:07:11 CDT Received: from Erebus.Stanford.EDU by uxc.cso.uiuc.edu with SMTP (5.62+/IDA-1.2.8-900601) id AA21546 (for salevin%drlc1.UUCP@convex.com); Fri, 1 Jun 90 12:03:00 -0500 Received: from Hanauma.Stanford.EDU by erebus.Stanford.EDU with TCP; Fri, 1 Jun 90 10:07:15 PDT Received: by hanauma.stanford.edu (5.51/7.0) id AA16994; Fri, 1 Jun 90 10:02:48 PDT Received: from EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU by Pescadero.Stanford.EDU (5.59/25-eef) id AA22609; Fri, 1 Jun 90 10:01:46 PDT Received: by expo.lcs.mit.edu; Fri, 1 Jun 90 09:06:37 EDT Received: from bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU by expo.lcs.mit.edu; Fri, 1 Jun 90 09:06:16 EDT Received: by bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU (5.61/25-eef) id AA10063; Fri, 1 Jun 90 08:37:35 EDT Received: from USENET by bloom-beacon.mit.edu with netnews for xpert@expo.lcs.mit.edu (xpert@expo.lcs.mit.edu) (contact usenet@bloom-beacon.mit.edu if you have questions) Date: 1 Jun 90 12:08:47 GMT From: convex!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!jsparkes%bcars85%bnrgate%bcars8%cunews%utgpu (Jeff Sparkes) Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ltd. Ottawa Ontario CANADA Subject: Re: console message and XDM Message-Id: References: , <17880@ultima.cs.uts.oz> Sender: convex!expo.lcs.mit.edu!xpert-request To: xpert@expo.lcs.mit.edu In <17880@ultima.cs.uts.oz> keane@ultima.cs.uts.oz (Chris Keane) writes: >asking me what was wrong, so I've hacked xdm to have a console window at the >bottom of the screen. It basically starts a program that runs as a pseudotty and >displays everything the comes over the pty on a nice-even-if-I-say-so-myself >scrolling, wrap-around window. The window doesn't recognise any input-type >events. Xdm hijacks the console output using ioctl() and stuffs it into the >the other end of the pty. Voila! Instant console! >It's been tested and runs quite successfully on Sun3's, Sun386i's and SunSS1's >all running SunOS 4.0.3. It works for both X11r3 and X11r4. >The diffs are very small. If you're interested, I send them to you, although >I believe the ioctl() to steal the console is rather system-dependant (I don't >know that for sure though), so if you're not running suns... >regards... I'm using xterm -C, which already has the various ways to grab a console.. Still I'd like to see your changes, since mine are none to pretty. It's quite a pain to figure out how big an xterm will be and center it. -- Jeff Sparkes jsparkes@bnr.ca Cat: Is that what I think it is? Lister: What do you think it is? Cat: A big orange whirly thing in space!