startx verbose output
On 15 Apr 2005 09:45:51 -0700, carol staggered into the Black Sun and said:
Which version of X? Which graphics card are you using? You may want to post your xorg.conf file on your webspace and follow up to this message with the URL.
"man Xorg" says:
-logfile filename Use the file called filename as the Xorg server log file. The default log file isvar-log-Xorg.n.log on most platforms, where
...so look invar-log-Xorg.0.log first. -verbose increases the amount of info printed on stderr, which is usually less useful than logged output since you're usually in X instead of the console where you started X.
I have a theory as to why windows converts seem to have so much trouble with this concept when they...
...maybe that was true in a really old version of X. I do have a file ~-.xsession-errors , but that's not the X log. It's a file consisting almost entirely of what looks like the output of X applications that write to stderr. If these X applications were started without a controlling terminal, a part of KDE writes their stderr to .xsession-errors . I think. HTH,
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