Previously...
On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Subba Rao wrote:
>On 0, "shawn a." <space19_at_earthlink.net> wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 27, 1999 at 01:46:19PM -0500, Subba Rao wrote:
>> >
>> > If I choose to use the debug option, where do the debug messages get logged?
>> > Can I use xconsole to this advantage (for debugging)?
>> >
>> Hi, the man page says that the output goes to stderr so to display it in X
>> you could try this:
>> % startx &>./debug_log
>>
>> then once X is started bring up a terminal and do a:
>> % tail -f debug_log
>>
>> then turn on FvwmDebug and let the fun begin :-)
>> good luck,
>> sa
>>
>
>Thanks for replying. I login via XDM and not through startx. In this case, where
>do I pipe the log messages?
>
>Subba Rao
>subb3_at_attglobal.net
>http://pws.prserv.net/truemax/
Can't you just redirect stderr from the command you use in your
.xsession or .Xclients file to start up fvwm2?
Something like:
exec fvwm2 > $HOME/.FVWM2-errors 2>&1
and then as suggested above tail -f .FVWM2-errors
or is this the wrong process?
Tom
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Received on Tue Dec 28 1999 - 07:41:20 GMT