Victor Eijkhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 14:48 -0400 2002/10/01, Dan Espen wrote: > >Victor Eijkhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- Dan Espen E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL: http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
