Terminal in the background

[Norberto Meijome]

On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 10:03:34 -0700
"Logan McNaughton" <loganm10 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I just
> want to be able to see system shutdown notices and the likes.

xconsole? :) I know it doesn't got to the X's root.

maybe you can use something like torsmo (or some other app) to read what
gets written to /dev/console (which is where those messages get written
to)

B

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