XCONSOLE(1) MachTen Programmer’s 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 evi-
dent 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.

X DEFAULTS
This program uses the Athena Text widget, look in the
Athena Widget Set documentation for controlling it.

WIDGETS
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 struc-
ture. 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 property.

FILES
<XRoot>/lib/X11/app-defaults/XConsole - specifies required
resources

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

AUTHOR
Keith Packard (MIT X Consortium)

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