> I get the same problem in X-window, but I cannot get the messages to print
> to xconsole at all, they only go to the bottom of the screen. A work around
> is to use fvwm which has a screen redraw button that fixes up the screen
> whenever bad things happen. I'd love to get xconsole working, and wonder if
> you did anything special to get stuff to print there??

Try running xconsole as root.  What I usually do is keep a root's
xterm window open with -C option since nobody tries to break in in my
room.

kenn