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- From: brown@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (John Brown)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Re: Colour X display corrupted by console writes on HP 710
- Message-ID: <7371269@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 16:51:29 GMT
- References: <BtJB7y.IF8@csc.liv.ac.uk>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- In comp.sys.hp, djn@csc.liv.ac.uk (David Nixon) writes:
-
- > I have come across an annoying feature of the X display on our
- > new HP 710 colour work-stations: Programs which send messages to the console
- > device, such as the accounting system, overwrite the X display . This is not
- > the case with our HP 720 grey-scale work-stations.
- >
- > Summary: X login screens, such as those created by VUE or Xdm can be messed
- > up by running standard system accounting software on HP 710s under HP-UX 8-07.
- >
-
- You might want to consider creating a "console" hpterm window, as in:
-
- hpterm -C -name console
-
- The -C option tells hpterm to become the console, the -name option is just
- to let you know which hpterm is the console. Then, any console messages
- will be sent to that hpterm window instead of the "real" console device.
- This is fairly standard practice around here.
-
- By the way, for this work properly your /usr/lib/X11/Xconsoles file should
- look something like this (that last line containing the "*" is what's
- important, the rest is just comments):
-
- # This file controls which displays on the local system are allowed to
- # redirect input and output from the system console, /dev/console.
- #
- # Refer to the hpterm(1) manual page for more information.
- #
- # The "*" allows all local displays to redirect console information.
- *
-
- Hope this helps!
-
- John Brown
- Hewlett-Packard
- User Interface Technology Division
- Fort Collins, CO
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