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From: pk <peterk2@××××××××.se>
To: GentooUser <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-user] xconsole characters
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:03:53
Message-Id: 4B338215.7070205@coolmail.se
1 Hi,
2
3 Does anyone know if there's a way to configure xconsole to not display
4 control characters (at least that's what I think it is)? Currently
5 xconsole displays this when XDM starts:
6
7 [32;01m*[0m Setting clock via the NTP client 'ntpdate' ...
8 [A[152C [34;01m[ [32;01mok[34;01m ][0m
9 [32;01m*[0m Starting postfix (/etc/postfix) ...
10 [A[152C [34;01m[ [32;01mok[34;01m ][0m
11
12 I've tried google but it seems my search skills are somewhat lacking...
13 or noone else has this problem.
14
15 The file where xconsole is started:
16 /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0
17
18 ... which contains this:
19 xconsole -geometry 480x130-0-0 -daemon -notify -verbose -fn fixed \
20 -exitOnFail
21 #xterm -C -geometry 480x130-0-0 -fn fixed -title "Xconsole"
22
23 Which doesn't really make it any clearer... I've tried to switch between
24 xconsole and xterm but the xterm one will expand and cover the whole
25 screen so that I can't see the login prompt...
26
27 I'm running a stable system and the xdm version installed is 1.1.8,
28 xconsole is 1.0.3-r1.
29
30 Any help is very much appreciated!
31
32 Merry Christmas!
33
34 Peter K

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Re: [gentoo-user] xconsole characters Willie Wong <wwong@××××××××××××××.edu>