I would like an old style xconsole on my desktop, ie a terminal which display a scrolling list of syslog message.Does the journald system have a nice desktop app or is there a simple way to get it to just fill in the correct syslog and message log files so xconsole will work as it used to?
How do I get xconsole to show the messages on a system with journald?
systemd;suse;journald
Something simple like:xterm -T xnotconsole -e journalctl -fought to work. -T sets the window title. You can of course add in things like -geometry to set its size (put all xterm options before the -e). And you could add in journalctl options to filter the messages you want, change the output format, etc.Though xconsole works on my Debian systemd box. It's configured (AFAIK by default in Debian) as systemd forwards to syslog, then rsyslog reads that, then rsyslog writes to /dev/xconsole.