Manual: xconsole

XCONSOLE(1)					   General Commands Manual					 XCONSOLE(1)

NAME
       xconsole - monitor system console messages with X

SYNOPSIS
       xconsole [-toolkitoption ...] [-file file-name] [-notify] [-stripNonprint] [-daemon] [-verbose] [-exitOnFail]

DESCRIPTION
       The xconsole program displays messages which are usually sent to /dev/console.

OPTIONS
       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).

X DEFAULTS
       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.

WIDGETS
       In order to specify resources, it is useful to know the hierarchy of the widgets which compose xconsole.	 In the	 no‐
       tation  below,  indentation  indicates hierarchical structure.  The widget class name is given first, followed by the
       widget instance name.

       XConsole	 xconsole
	    XConsole  text

ENVIRONMENT
       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  prop‐
	       erty.

FILES
       /etc/X11/app-defaults/XConsole
	      specifies required resources

SEE ALSO
       X(7), xrdb(1), Athena Text widget

AUTHOR
       Keith Packard (MIT X Consortium)

X Version 11					       xconsole 1.0.8						 XCONSOLE(1)