Viewing the console from X

[Anton Markov]

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?

How about this:

Start X manually with 'startx' or 'xinit' and redirect the output to a file:

$ startx > ~/x.log 2>&1

That'll redirect both the standard and error output to the file. It 
would be the same as switching to the virtual terminal that you started 
X from.

Your success will also depend on whether or not whatever method you use 
to launch the programs redirects the standard and/or error output to 
/dev/null (as I believe some do).

I hope this helps.

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