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From: klute@tommy.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rainer Klute)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: xconsole
Message-ID: <3124@laura.UUCP>
Date: 26 Mar 91 08:23:34 GMT
References: <1991Mar22.145850.26216@rice.edu>
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In article <1991Mar22.145850.26216@rice.edu>, uk1@spacsun.rice.edu (Paul A.
Scowen) writes:
|> I remember running across a little piece of software called xconsole
|> some months
|> back that redirects console output to a separate window instead of using
|> the
|> xterm -C option.  We need this to stop people grabbing the console
|> output when
|> they login on an Xterminal and not the main Console display.

You could as well check in your .xsession resp. .xinitrc file whether the X
Window System is running at the console or not and act accordingly. Here is
an excerpt from my .xsession file:

 #
 # If the users works with the X Window System at the console (not at an X
 # terminal) an xterm gets startet which catches the console output.
 #
if ("`tty`" == /dev/console) then
    (xterm -ls -name xterm-console -n "${host} console" -geometry 80x10+0-0 \
           -font 6x10 -C &)
endif

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