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dripdrop

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Registered: 2016-03-13

Posts: 5

silent shutdown

Hello guys!!I like the silent boot/shutdown thing a lot and even though i managed to completely silence my boot and kernel/systemd messages at shutdown i still see programms output and xorg messages..I tried everything mentioned in the wiki
for instance exec /usr/bin/Xorg -keeptty -nolisten tcp "$@" vt$XDG_VTNR at xserver and [[ -z $DISPLAY && $XDG_VTNR -eq 1 ]] && exec startx  > /dev/null on my shellrc but still no luck.Also programms output(tint conky gtkwarnings etc)seems kinda troublesome to silence.Any ideas??

teckk

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Registered: 2013-02-21

Posts: 519

Re: silent shutdown

Also programms output(tint conky gtkwarnings etc)seems kinda troublesome to silence.

Redirect standard output to file

command > /dev/null

Redirect standard error to file

command 2> /dev/null

Redirect both to file

command &> /dev/null

or

command > /dev/null 2>&1

Redirect stderr to stdout

command 2>&1

Try something like:

mpv file.mp3

mpv file.mp3 > /dev/null

mpv file.mp3 &> /dev/null

dripdrop

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Registered: 2016-03-13

Posts: 5

Re: silent shutdown

oh gosh... exec startx  &> /dev/null ,completely black shutdown..Thanks a lot for your help man