Xconsole accepts all of the standard X Toolkit command line options along with the additional options listed below:
-file file-name
To monitor some other device, use this option to specify the device name. This does not work on regular files as they are always ready to be read from.
-notify -nonotify
When new data are received from the console and the notify option is set, the icon name of the application has " *" appended, so that it is evident even when the application is iconified. -notify is the default.
-daemon
This option causes xconsole to place itself in the background, using fork/exit.
-verbose
When set, this option directs xconsole to display an informative message in the first line of the text buffer.
-exitOnFail
When set, this option directs xconsole to exit when it is unable to redirect the console output.
-saveLines count
When set, xconsole only preserves count lines of message history instead of growing the text buffer without bound (a count of zero - the default - is treated as placing no limit on the history).