thanks
You cannot see the console, it has been disabled at a code level.
I'm not sure what is meant by this, but it's fairly easy to get access to the cgminer console (text mode). All you need to do is log in, kill the current cgminer instance and launch a new one from the cli.
If you want to get fancy you can mod the cgminer init.d script to spawn each instance in a screen session as well.
The Curses option has been disabled when the build was compiled, you cannot see the standard pretty print cgminer screen.
Right, like I said "text mode" is readily available It _could_ be recompiled from the source on github if someone had the time and/or inclination.