Re: Aterm catching console messages
cajun (cajun@tdl.com)
Fri, 09 Apr 1999 15:05:58 -0700
Very good idea Coplan. Thanks !!
Mike
Coplan wrote:
>
> On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Armando L. Caro Jr. wrote:
>
> > I like to log into the same settings everytime, hence I don't use
> > the .workspace feature which starts up whatever I left open when I
> > logged out. In my autoexec, I replaced calling .workspace with
> > .workspace.PERMANENT. In this file I replaced the xconsole with aterm
> > -C, but when I log in... the aterm -C is never executed. Instead I still
> > get a default white xconsole.
> >
> > Anyone know why this would be? (I am using Afterstep 1.6.10-1 and aterm
> > 0.3.4)
> >
> I don't know how to solve _that_ particular problem...but I do have an
> alternative. Try setting a system wide alias for Startx as follows:
>
> startx='startx > ~/.xerrors 2>&1'
>
> This will pipe the output to a file ~/.xerrors. Then, in your autoexec
> file, load up aterm like such:
>
> Exec "I" aterm -T atail --geometry +0+0 -e tail -f ~/.xerrors
>
> You'll want to change the geometry to whatever you need and add more
> options as needed (before the -e). The only reason I give it a title is
> so that I can call up different properties through the database file. In
> my case, I set it so that it will have no decorations at all, it is sticky
> and winlist skips it.
>
> Cheers,
>
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