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From: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Why doesn't xterm -C work?
Message-ID: <HARDY.91Feb16153723@golem.ps.uci.edu>
Date: 16 Feb 91 23:36:09 GMT
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In-reply-to: lmb@sat.com's message of 16 Feb 91 22:05:45 GMT

In article <1991Feb16.220545.12333@sat.com> lmb@sat.com (Larry Blair) writes:

>    System: 9000/3XX
>    O/S:    7.0
> 
>    According to the HP documentation, the "-C" option to xterm and hpterm
>    should grab output to /dev/console, but the option does not appear to
>    work, even if I start the window as root.  What do I need to do to make
>    this work?
I have the OS (9000/370 and 9000/345(diskless) ). The following lines
in my .x11start bring up a console xterm
---

mwm & 

sleep 5     # Allow time for initializing hpwm before starting other clients.

if [ -z "$COPYRIGHT_SEEN" ]
then
    /usr/bin/X11/xterm -C -ls -geometry 80x24+0+145 -fn iso1.16b -T CONSOLE -n CONSOLE $@ &
fi
------
However, in order that your display act as console, you must also have
a /usr/lib/X11/Xconsoles file (albeit empty), if my memory is correct
(I set up the system about 8 months ago).






Hardy Mayer
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Professor Meinhard E. Mayer
Department of Physics
University of California
Irvine, CA, 92717
USA