xconsole - monitor system console messages with X
xconsole [-toolkitoption ...] [-file
file-name] [-notify] [-stripNonprint] [-daemon] [-verbose]
[-exitOnFail]
The xconsole program displays messages which are usually
sent to /dev/console.
Xconsole accepts all of the standard X Toolkit command line
options along with the additional options listed below:
- -file
file-name
- To monitor some other device, use this option to specify the device name.
This does not work on regular files as they are always ready to be read
from.
- -notify
-nonotify
- When new data are received from the console and the notify option is set,
the icon name of the application has " *" appended, so that it
is evident even when the application is iconified. -notify is the
default.
- -daemon
- This option causes xconsole to place itself in the background,
using fork/exit.
- -verbose
- When set, this option directs xconsole to display an informative
message in the first line of the text buffer.
- -exitOnFail
- When set, this option directs xconsole to exit when it is unable to
redirect the console output.
- -saveLines
count
- When set, xconsole only preserves count lines of message
history instead of growing the text buffer without bound (a count
of zero - the default - is treated as placing no limit on the
history).
This program uses the Athena Text widget, look in the
Athena Widget Set documentation for controlling it.
Xconsole otherwise accepts resources of the same names as
the command-line options (without the leading dash). "file" is a
string type, "saveLines" an integer, and the remaining options are
booleans.
In order to specify resources, it is useful to know the hierarchy
of the widgets which compose xconsole. In the notation below,
indentation indicates hierarchical structure. The widget class name is given
first, followed by the widget instance name.
XConsole xconsole
XConsole text
- DISPLAY
- to get the default host and display number.
- XENVIRONMENT
- to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global resources
stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property.
- /etc/X11/app-defaults/XConsole
- specifies required resources
Keith Packard (MIT X Consortium)