Re: f11 X "hang"

[Chuck Anderson <cra WPI EDU>]

On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 02:08:12AM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Adam Jackson wrote:
> > IWBNI screen(1) had a mode where it would track the visible area
> > updates, and if they're not being processed, coalesce them internally
> > until its output queue is drained and then send them all as one big
> > screen refresh.  If it did, then you could run strace under screen and
> > avoid this livelock; g-t might get swamped for a while, but strace
> > wouldn't, so ekiga would always be able to advance.  But it doesn't, at
> > least not that I've been able to find.
> 
> Won't redirecting the stderr output to a file work?

Or just use strace -o.