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by **Jake K** » Thu, 20 Jul 1995 04:00:00

Howdy..

If someone tries to talk to me while I am in X, I don't get
any message telling me that someone is paging me. Instead, I
only hear a beep. The paging message is coming into my console
where I 'startx' so I have to 'shell' out from X to see who's
paging.

I tried to use the 'xterm' with -C option, but that doesn't
seem to work.

Anyone with solution?

=g=

by **Dougal Campbe** » Thu, 20 Jul 1995 04:00:00

> Howdy..
> If someone tries to talk to me while I am in X, I don't get
> any message telling me that someone is paging me. Instead, I
> only hear a beep. The paging message is coming into my console
> where I 'startx' so I have to 'shell' out from X to see who's
> paging.

In your .fvwmrc (or equivalent), before you start your window manager,
execute a 'mesg n' command. This will prevent messages from going to
the text console, forcing them to go to your xterms instead. You might
also want to have a reciprocal 'mesg y' in there after your window
manager exits.

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by **Moira Wats** » Fri, 21 Jul 1995 04:00:00

>If someone tries to talk to me while I am in X, I don't get
>any message telling me that someone is paging me. Instead, I
>only hear a beep. The paging message is coming into my console
>where I 'startx' so I have to 'shell' out from X to see who's
>paging.
>Anyone with solution?

Well, since you are using startx -- the easiest thing to do is turn
'mesg n' on your console(s) before you start up X11...

Because I typically use X11 more than the consoles, I have 'mesg n' in
my .tcshrc and then have a 'mesg y' in a script that sets up a tlog
(term) monitor in one of the xterms. That way I've got a fake console
window.

moira

by **zin** » Fri, 21 Jul 1995 04:00:00

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>> Howdy..

>> If someone tries to talk to me while I am in X, I don't get
>> any message telling me that someone is paging me. Instead, I
>> only hear a beep. The paging message is coming into my console
>> where I 'startx' so I have to 'shell' out from X to see who's
>> paging.

howdy to you,

you should try using the -C option when you start up an xterm. works
just fine for me...

- -pat

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