Victor Eijkhout <eijkhout_at_cs.utk.edu> writes:
> At 14:48 -0400 2002/10/01, Dan Espen wrote:
> >Victor Eijkhout <eijkhout_at_cs.utk.edu> writes:
> >> 'Echo' writes to stderr. Fine, but which xterm is displaying stderr?
> >> I've even tried "xterm -C", but that didn't show anything either.
> >
> >That depends on how you start Fvwm.
> >Are you using startx, CDE, or some other login manager?
>
> On Mac OS X the whole of X starts by clicking on some application.
>
> I guess that means stderr gets lost somewhere.
>
> I'll see what happens if I start X by 'startx' from a terminal.
>
> But on a normal workstation, after you type 'startx' you don't see
> the original shell anymore. How can you then look at stderr output?
If you type startx in Linux console 1, you can switch back to
it by typing Ctrl-Alt-F1 and then you see stderr.
For Linux, I sometimes do:
startx >/tmp/startx.out 2>&1
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Received on Tue Oct 01 2002 - 14:19:31 BST