This is the mail archive of the
cygwin-xfree
mailing list for the Cygwin XFree86 project.
Implement ~/.xsession-errors?
- From: Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:35:12 -0500
- Subject: Implement ~/.xsession-errors?
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
I'm wondering whether it's feasible for the Cygwin X-server to redirect
stderr to ~/.xsession-errors for programs started under the server, as
is done on some Linux systems. This would be useful for two reasons.
First, some programs emit warnings that can be ignored, and it would be
nice if users could avoid seeing those every time they start the
program. Second, and more importantly, standard error is often lost,
for instance for programs started by ~/.startxwinrc. It could be useful
for package maintainers to be able to ask users to send the contents of
~/.xsession-errors.
Ken
--
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/
FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/