Re: Towards an instructive minimalist intall of Openbox

[saint@eng.it]

Bob Proulx writes:
 > And so there is the explanation.  If the .xinitrc script exits then
 > that indicates to xinit that the user is done and that xinit should
 > exit, ending the X windows session.  Therefore we put the window
 > manager at the end and run it in the foreground not the background.

Once upon a long ago (Linux version number was below 0) I used to have
an xterm -C or an xconsole as last instruction in my .xinitrc file I
was working on a Sun workstation and not having it meant having a mess
on the root window any time some output reached the console (i.e. talk
request from someuser@onemachine).

Then Linus wrote the virtual consoles (and then it was a very good
thing) and Linux users lost the ability to see console message in X11,
at least AFAIK. I wonder if have things changed, if someone devised a
way to have the console output visible in an X11 window under
GNU/Linux.

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