Re: catching things written to terminals

[Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>]

On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 17:19, Bart Kuik wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 19:13, Peter Oliver wrote:

> > Perhaps some part of Gnome (the panel, maybe?) should quietly open a tty
> > to listen for such messages, which could then be passed to the user
> > somehow.  If a dialogue box seems too obtrusive, perhaps an sound could play
> > and an icon could appear in the notification area.
> 
> Most messages from X apps are outputted to the terminal X was started
> from. So a 'startx >.Xlog 2>&1' (when starting X from textmode) should
> put all the stuff to .Xlog. You can open a terminal with 'tail -f .Xlog'
> then to show the output in that terminal. In that way it should be
> possible to output all messages of a terminal to a file, and 'tail -f'
> it in an xterm.

I think you're missing what the original author meant.  He meant apps
that do the equivalent of echo >/dev/tty, i.e. toosl like 'write',
'talk', and so on.
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Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>
AwesomePlay Productions, Inc.