You could always do

rm /tmp/XWin.log
ln -s /dev/null /tmp/XWin.log

That should work and dump to /dev/null.

Alan.

On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 09:11:03 -0700, Cary Jamison wrote:
> Modifying the code to put the log in /dev/null certainly doesn't seem like an 
>attractive solution.  If I were to go that far, I would rather just search for where 
>the particular message is output that is causing the problem and disable it.
> 
> Do others not have this problem?  The only unique thing about my setup is that I use 
>Andrei Gourianov's goScreen as a virtual desktop manager under windows.  I haven't 
>tested to see if this affects the XWin.log or not.  I can't imagine that it would, 
>since the log fills up even when my desktop is set to the one where X is running, so 
>it shouldn't see any difference.
> 
> What is the purpose of this message (winCursorOffScreen () - hmm...)?  It seems 
>pretty useless.
> 
> It would seem like a good idea to be able to configure where the log file goes, 
>though.  I never like seeing such things hard coded in a program.
> 
> Cary
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