Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ncar!gatech!mcnc!duke!khera From: khera@thneed.cs.duke.edu (Vick Khera) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: The equivilent of /etc/wall in the X environment Message-ID: Date: 15 Nov 90 16:13:58 GMT References: <2131@engadm2.csd.mot.com> Sender: news@duke.cs.duke.edu Distribution: na Organization: Duke University CS Dept., Durham, NC Lines: 18 Nntp-Posting-Host: thneed.cs.duke.edu In-reply-to: jwz@lucid.com's message of 14 Nov 90 20:55:39 GMT In article jwz@lucid.com (Jamie Zawinski) writes: From: jwz@lucid.com (Jamie Zawinski) Date: 14 Nov 90 20:55:39 GMT What I would like to see is an application that does what "xterm -C" does (grabs all system messages, things written on /dev/console, etc) except that this app would automatically uniconify itself when a new message appeared. how about xconsole? it does what you asked for and it even works under Ultrix. v. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vick Khera Gradual Student Department of Computer Science ARPA: khera@cs.duke.edu Duke University UUCP: ...!mcnc!duke!khera Durham, NC 27706 (919) 660-6528