Re: xconsole placement

[Brian Servis <servis@purdue.edu>]

*- On 30 Mar, ktb wrote about "xconsole placement"
> I have been working on this one for awhile and can't come up with an
> answer.  Xconsole is iconified when I start X and when I deiconify it,
> it opens off screen.  What I want is xconsole to be open and in view at
> the bottom of my screen when my X session starts.  Xconsole seems to be
> coming from xdm as it isn't present when I used the command startx. 
> There is a line for xconsole geometry in /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0
> 
>  fi
>   rm -f /var/run/xconsole_0.pid
>   # start fresh xconsole and store its PID
>   xconsole -geometry 480x130-0-0 -notify -verbose -fn fixed \
>     -exitOnFail -file /dev/xconsole &
>   echo $! > /var/run/xconsole_0.pid
> fi
> 
> I tried changing the geometry numbers but that just made xconsole load
> in the xdm loggin page and when I logged in to X xconsole was
> iconified.  I don't understand the programming strings of the file so
> maybe what I did was wrong.  
> 
> I tried putting this line,
> 
> + "I" exec xconsole -geometry =480x130+153+400 -exitOnFail -daemon
                                ^
                                ^
                            remove the equal sign

   
> 
> in my ~/.fvwm2/init.hook file.  The xconsole icon briefly appeared and
> then no xconsole at all.  
> 
> If I try opening xconsole from the root menu of fvwm2 xconsole says
> "Couldn't open console."  I've looked at the fvwm2 user's archives,
> debian user's archives and various man pages.  I could use some help.

Make sure that the permissions are good on /dev/xconsole, so that
regular users can read the fifo,  mine is also set to write but I
don't think that should be, I will have to check that.

% ls -l /dev/xconsole 
   0 prw-rw-rw-   1 root     root            0 Mar 30 21:28 /dev/xconsole|



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