On Mon, 24 Jul 2017, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 02:20:08PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: > > You'd need some sort of system logging daemon. Something which runs with > > the privileges necessary to write to the log file, and which can accept > > log messages from unprivileged processes, perhaps by listening on a UNIX > > socket. > > Like syslogd, you mean. Which X doesn't use.
You can redirect the stdout/stderr from the xserver to a pipe, and rsyslogd can be happily configured to read from that pipe and write to the system logger. Or you can just use xconsole and the like. -- Henrique Holschuh