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iOfWhy

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Registered: 2012-05-16

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xsession errors

Since i installed arch i havent been able to find output from xsessions. i have no .xsession-errors file in my home, so where do i find it?

for a little while i used to launch x by typing startx which gave me all the output in the console. i could Ctrl+Alt+F1 to that virtual console and see all problems, but now i cant find anyway to do this. which i assume there must be.

thanks

DarkCerberus

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Re: xsession errors

Try reading the arch linux wiki - according to our wiki .xsessions are located in /usr/share/xsessions which is usually generated by window managers and probably logon display managers as well.

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iOfWhy

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Re: xsession errors

Try reading the arch linux wiki - according to our wiki .xsessions are located in /usr/share/xsessions which is usually generated by window managers and probably logon display managers as well.

Thanks for you reply, looked through the wiki article for Xorg but found no reference to output, errors or xsession. Looked in /usr/share/xsession but only found a configuration file called Xfce Session...

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Re: xsession errors

Try reading the arch linux wiki - according to our wiki .xsessions are located in /usr/share/xsessions which is usually generated by window managers and probably logon display managers as well.

Not to be rude, but did you actually read his question?

The display manager usually redirects the standard error to ~/.xsession-errors, so if you want this behaviour when launching X from the console, start X with

$ startx 2> ~/.xsession-errors

Last edited by guelfi (2012-06-10 14:25:44)

iOfWhy

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Re: xsession errors

The display manager usually redirects the standard error to ~/.xsession-errors, so if you want this behaviour when launching X from the console, start X with

$ startx 2> ~/.xsession-errors

Thanks for your reply. should probably have said something about my setup. I am using SLiM login manager with xfce. I start slim from daemons list in rc.conf. My .xinitrc only has one line:

exec startxfce4

I recall previously having tried to add similar lines in .xinitrc. Ie, at one point i think i had exec startxfce4 >> ~/.xsession-errors but to no avail...

So if i do use display manager to launch X, how do i output errors?

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Re: xsession errors

This isn't an answer but by way of reference, I use KDM and the system simply spews errors to ~/.xsession-errors. So either there's something special about configuring SLiM or there's a problem somewhere. The wiki page for SliM doesn't mention anything about the errors.

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Re: xsession errors

The wiki page for SliM doesn't mention anything about the errors.

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iOfWhy

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Re: xsession errors

i still havent been able to output errors from my installation...

Once a user has made the error of installing Slim, everything else is incidental

i really like slim for all other reasons, and looking at this thread https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=107890 it seems people at least used to have the problem of TOO MUCH output from their xsession with slim. however, when i look at my /var/log/slim.log all i have is

slim: waiting for X server to begin accepting connections.


slim: waiting for X server to begin accepting connections.

slim: waiting for X server to shut down



slim: waiting for X server to begin accepting connections.slim: unexpected signal 15


slim: waiting for X server to begin accepting connections.


slim: waiting for X server to begin accepting connections.


slim: waiting for X server to begin accepting connections.

slim: waiting for X server to shut down



slim: waiting for X server to begin accepting connections.slim: unexpected signal 15


slim: waiting for X server to begin accepting connections.

slim: waiting for X server to shut down

looking at the thread they refer to a "solution" available at https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/slim … 00092.html, but i cannot find any "solution" there... further down CPUnitd says one is supposed to add  "./example.pl > /dev/null 2>&1" do .xinitrc to not get that result, could i do the same in some way in order to get the ouput somewhere?

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Re: xsession errors

Look in (or post) your slim conf.  The output redirection is usually in there on the line that runs .xinitrc

edit: look for the login_cmd line.  And I do agree about the facetious but truth-conveying statement about the error of installing slim.  It can work quite well for a while, but every update it can completely change and lead to a mess of issues.  I got rid of it when I realized it served no function except to slow down boot time.

Last edited by Trilby (2012-07-29 13:31:28)

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