Viewing the console from X

[James Knott]

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?
> 
> Thanks.

Have you tried redirecting the output to a file?

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