[gentoo-user] xconsole started appearing after update

[gentoo-user] xconsole started appearing after update

[fajfusio]

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/html, Size: 1276 bytes --]

[gentoo-user] Re: xconsole started appearing after update

[walt]

On 11/18/2009 01:33 AM, fajfusio@wp.pl wrote:
> Hello
>
> After world upgrade (3 weeks ago) I found that xconsole starts along
> with xdm
> startup. It appears along with logging windows in xdm.
> I don't use neither kde nor gnome. I use fluxbox but I think that it
> does not
> matter because xconsole appears before starting fluxbox.
>
> "ps" shows me the following:
> xconsole -geometry 480x130-0-0 -daemon -notify -verbose -fn fixed
> -exitOnFail...

Two ideas:  use the 'f' flag with ps (ps -axf) to see who owns the
xconsole process; and delete or rename xconsole and see who complains
when X starts up.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xconsole started appearing after update

[Albert Hopkins]

On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 11:41 -0800, walt wrote:
> On 11/18/2009 01:33 AM, fajfusio@wp.pl wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > After world upgrade (3 weeks ago) I found that xconsole starts along
> > with xdm
> > startup. It appears along with logging windows in xdm.
> > I don't use neither kde nor gnome. I use fluxbox but I think that it
> > does not
> > matter because xconsole appears before starting fluxbox.
> >
> > "ps" shows me the following:
> > xconsole -geometry 480x130-0-0 -daemon -notify -verbose -fn fixed
> > -exitOnFail...
> 
> Two ideas:  use the 'f' flag with ps (ps -axf) to see who owns the
> xconsole process; and delete or rename xconsole and see who complains
> when X starts up.
> 
> 
> 

xdm starts it:

$ equery f xdm| while read f ; do file "$f" |grep -qi text && grep -H
xconsole $f; done
/etc/X11/xdm/Xresources:XConsole.text.geometry: 480x130
/etc/X11/xdm/Xresources:XConsole.verbose:       true
/etc/X11/xdm/Xresources:XConsole*iconic:        true
/etc/X11/xdm/Xresources:XConsole*font:          fixed
/usr/lib64/X11/xdm/GiveConsole:# By convention, both xconsole and xterm
-C check that the
/usr/lib64/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0:xconsole -geometry 480x130-0-0 -daemon
-notify -verbose -fn fixed -exitOnFail
/usr/share/man/man1/xdm.1:to run \fIxconsole\fP here).
/usr/share/man/man1/xdm.1:      xconsole\0\-geometry\0480x130\-0\-0\0
\-notify\0\-verbose\0\-exitOnFail &


/usr/lib64/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0 is the file that you want.