[Debian-eeepc-devel] eeepc-acpi-scripts + console + gnu screen ircase?effect

[Trent W. Buck]

Damyan Ivanov <dmn at debian.org> writes:

> -=| Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn, Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 09:43:28PM +0200 |=-
>> Then it's the other thing: cluttering the console.  I do understand
>> messaging is important.  But 'logger' should be a better way to achieve
>> that.
>> 
>> 	# tail -f /var/log/syslog
>> 
>> in a desktop terminal, push a button and watch the show.  No need to
>> switch to a console to look for messages.  I understand there are some
>> cases where switching to a virtual console may leed to not being able to
>> switch back to X.
>
> I think I see a misunderstanding here.
>
> This particular case of writing to the console is on purpose. It is
> used when there is no X session recognized and the console is the only
> way to notify the user of the event. Note: notification, not logging.
> It is a console version of the notification area baloon in a typical
> graphical desktop environment.

Correct.  I only run X on demand for the occasional PDF of broken web
page; most of my time I spend on the console (as the Subject hints).