seeing why programs dont run: tailing stdout

nandrews · n00b Joined: 25 Jun 2004 Posts: 29

Hi,

I've been annoyed by programs not launching/crashing in X and not seeing their error messages if they're not run from a terminal. I assume their stdout is sent to the terminal from which X was launched, but I'm not sure how to tail that, or even if its possible. Is there a file I can tail using root-tail or is more complicated than that?

Thanks

jdgill0 · Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 1:43 am Post subject:

If you start the app from a terminal it will dump stdout/stderr messages to the terminal automatically.
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nandrews · n00b Joined: 25 Jun 2004 Posts: 29

right, but how about ones i don't launch from the terminal?

i.e. from fluxbox's menu

jdgill0 · Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 1:55 am Post subject:

nandrews · n00b Joined: 25 Jun 2004 Posts: 29

say i really really want to launch them from the menu

wuzzerd · Guru Joined: 05 Jan 2005 Posts: 467 Location: New Mexico

nandrews:

Try this in an terminal window

nandrews · n00b Joined: 25 Jun 2004 Posts: 29

wuzzard,

yes and no. that'll give me some of the errors im looking for, but not all. to give a specific example, after upgrading firefox it wouldn't launch for a while when selected from fluxbox's menu, and i had to go find the executable and launch it from a terminal to find out what was wrong. doing that i saw that there were some permissions not set right and it was an easy fix.

i'd like a way to see status info (whatever would be printed to the terminal if launched from there) without opening a terminal and launching from there so i can quickly troubleshoot applications that don't start normally.

dbrug · n00b Joined: 02 Dec 2005 Posts: 3 Location: Germany / Ulm

run your window manager within xterm, like putting ``xterm -T "Log" -e ion3'' into your .xinitrc instead of ion3.

ppurka · Advocate Joined: 26 Dec 2004 Posts: 3256