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I would like to see what is going on at TTY1 (the console I was booting from) while I am now on TTY7 running X11 with KDE4, without switching back to TTY1 (ALTCTRLF1).

I would like to see it inside KDE's Konsole, if possible. (Have TTY1 redirected into Konsole. Sort of. Including all boot history that was scrolling down while I was booting.)

Is that possible?

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fold -bw80 /dev/vcs1

Substitute 80 for your actual width. This doesn't support attributes, the /dev/vcsa* include attributes.

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Check out ttysnoop: http://www.linuxhelp.net/guides/ttysnoop/

I think you will not be able to see everything since boot, only everything after you connected to the snoop session.

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