On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 10:05:57AM -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
> %% Bob Woodside <proteus_at_pcnet.com> writes:
>
> >> Sergei Gerasenko wrote:
>
> >> Hi everybody, I have a rather stupid question but I haven't been
> >> able to figure out where startx keeps its output. Does anybody
> >> know?
>
> bw> Now...on to your question. startx is just a shell script that
> bw> invokes xinit. It doesn't put its output anyplace special, which
> bw> means that it will just get written to the console from which you
> bw> invoked it.
>
> bw> A common practice is to modify startx to suit your own
> bw> preferences. I do this to have the stdout/stderr output redirected
> bw> to /dev/console to that I can view the output with xconsole or
> bw> some such tool while X is running. To do this, look for a line -
> bw> probably the last line in startx - that looks something like this:
>
> bw> xinit $clientargs -- $serverargs
>
> bw> and modify it to look like this:
>
> bw> xinit $clientargs -- $serverargs >/dev/console 2>&1
>
> I don't like changing system scripts like startx, since it makes package
> managers (Debian, RPM, etc.) nervous.
>
> Also, I switch between XDM (which wants ~/.xsession) and vanilla startx
> (which wants ~/.xinitrc) fairly regularly.
>
> What I do is this:
>
> * In ~/.xinitrc:
>
> . $HOME/.xrc
>
> * In ~/.xsession:
>
> . $HOME/.xrc
>
> * In ~/.xrc:
>
> # This is the X startup script...
> #
>
> exec >$HOME/.Xerrorlog 2>&1
>
> # Do some stuff!
>
> exec fvwm2
>
> Note I use bash; if you don't use a Bourne-ish shell (then switch! No
> no no that's not it... :) you may need to rewrite some or all of the
> above. I don't really know how to do it in csh.
>
> The trick in ~/.xrc is the exec; if you don't give a filename arg to
> exec, it modifies the stdout/stderr of the current process (the shell).
> Thus you can redirect all subsequent output to wherever you like (here I
> use a file). See the man page for sh (or bash or whatever).
>
> Lastly I exec the window manager so when it exits, my X session exits.
Wow, I didn't know you can do it this complicated ;-)
I simply use an alias:
alias x="startx $* > ~/.X.err 2>&1"
It's less keystrokes to restart X too.
Bye
Dominik ^_^
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Received on Tue May 18 1999 - 09:41:04 BST