Xconsole reads what you tell it to read. Normal setup has it watching the equivalent to syslogd's output. This is set up in the syslogd.conf file in /etc. Xconsole can be set to watch what ever file, fifo, stdin you set it to watch. So if you like you can make it xconsole -file /var/log/messages and it will show that instead.
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