*- On 30 Mar, ktb wrote about "xconsole placement"
> I have been working on this one for awhile and can't come up with an
> answer. Xconsole is iconified when I start X and when I deiconify it,
> it opens off screen. What I want is xconsole to be open and in view at
> the bottom of my screen when my X session starts. Xconsole seems to be
> coming from xdm as it isn't present when I used the command startx.
> There is a line for xconsole geometry in /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0
>
> fi
> rm -f /var/run/xconsole_0.pid
> # start fresh xconsole and store its PID
> xconsole -geometry 480x130-0-0 -notify -verbose -fn fixed \
> -exitOnFail -file /dev/xconsole &
> echo $! > /var/run/xconsole_0.pid
> fi
>
> I tried changing the geometry numbers but that just made xconsole load
> in the xdm loggin page and when I logged in to X xconsole was
> iconified. I don't understand the programming strings of the file so
> maybe what I did was wrong.
>
> I tried putting this line,
>
> + "I" exec xconsole -geometry =480x130+153+400 -exitOnFail -daemon
^
^
remove the equal sign
>
> in my ~/.fvwm2/init.hook file. The xconsole icon briefly appeared and
> then no xconsole at all.
>
> If I try opening xconsole from the root menu of fvwm2 xconsole says
> "Couldn't open console." I've looked at the fvwm2 user's archives,
> debian user's archives and various man pages. I could use some help.
Make sure that the permissions are good on /dev/xconsole, so that
regular users can read the fifo, mine is also set to write but I
don't think that should be, I will have to check that.
% ls -l /dev/xconsole
0 prw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Mar 30 21:28 /dev/xconsole|
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