Re: Eterm --console

[Adam Shand <larry@alaska.net>]

> I personally don't think that specifying a term as console shows you
> anything all that interesting - at least, it never has for me.
> 
> OTOH, if you do a "tail -f /var/log/syslog" in a transparent Eterm, and
> park it in the corner of your screen, you have a very cool XConsole.
> Pipe it through a log-colouriser, and it's even cooler.

all this means is that you need to configure what gets log'd to
/dev/xconsole (or /dev/console depending on your config).  you can dump the
same info that goes to syslog to your console ... plus other stuff if you so
desire.

adam.