On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 17:19, Bart Kuik wrote: > On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 19:13, Peter Oliver wrote: > > Perhaps some part of Gnome (the panel, maybe?) should quietly open a tty > > to listen for such messages, which could then be passed to the user > > somehow. If a dialogue box seems too obtrusive, perhaps an sound could play > > and an icon could appear in the notification area. > > Most messages from X apps are outputted to the terminal X was started > from. So a 'startx >.Xlog 2>&1' (when starting X from textmode) should > put all the stuff to .Xlog. You can open a terminal with 'tail -f .Xlog' > then to show the output in that terminal. In that way it should be > possible to output all messages of a terminal to a file, and 'tail -f' > it in an xterm. I think you're missing what the original author meant. He meant apps that do the equivalent of echo >/dev/tty, i.e. toosl like 'write', 'talk', and so on. -- Sean Middleditch <elanthis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> AwesomePlay Productions, Inc.
