Viewing the console from X

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 02:10:24PM -0500, William O'Higgins wrote:
> I have often wanted to see the console output of programs launched from
> X, but the only way that I know is to shut down X and look at the
> underlying console, which obviously wrecks the arrangement of programs,
> windows and associated states that I have built up on X over the hours,
> days or weeks that they X server has been running.
> 
> Is there a way that I can open up a window to "tail -f" the underlying
> console?

Is xconsole to obvious an answer?  Does anyone even remember xconsole?
:)

Lennart Sorensen
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