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From: Albert Hopkins <marduk@×××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xconsole started appearing after update
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:21:43
Message-Id: 1258575654.358934.6.camel@centar
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: xconsole started appearing after update by walt
1 On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 11:41 -0800, walt wrote:
2 > On 11/18/2009 01:33 AM, fajfusio@××.pl wrote:
3 > > Hello
4 > >
5 > > After world upgrade (3 weeks ago) I found that xconsole starts along
6 > > with xdm
7 > > startup. It appears along with logging windows in xdm.
8 > > I don't use neither kde nor gnome. I use fluxbox but I think that it
9 > > does not
10 > > matter because xconsole appears before starting fluxbox.
11 > >
12 > > "ps" shows me the following:
13 > > xconsole -geometry 480x130-0-0 -daemon -notify -verbose -fn fixed
14 > > -exitOnFail...
15 >
16 > Two ideas: use the 'f' flag with ps (ps -axf) to see who owns the
17 > xconsole process; and delete or rename xconsole and see who complains
18 > when X starts up.
19 >
20 >
21 >
22
23 xdm starts it:
24
25 $ equery f xdm| while read f ; do file "$f" |grep -qi text && grep -H
26 xconsole $f; done
27 /etc/X11/xdm/Xresources:XConsole.text.geometry: 480x130
28 /etc/X11/xdm/Xresources:XConsole.verbose: true
29 /etc/X11/xdm/Xresources:XConsole*iconic: true
30 /etc/X11/xdm/Xresources:XConsole*font: fixed
31 /usr/lib64/X11/xdm/GiveConsole:# By convention, both xconsole and xterm
32 -C check that the
33 /usr/lib64/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0:xconsole -geometry 480x130-0-0 -daemon
34 -notify -verbose -fn fixed -exitOnFail
35 /usr/share/man/man1/xdm.1:to run \fIxconsole\fP here).
36 /usr/share/man/man1/xdm.1: xconsole\0\-geometry\0480x130\-0\-0\0
37 \-notify\0\-verbose\0\-exitOnFail &
38
39
40 /usr/lib64/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0 is the file that you want.