Where goes the console output of X programs?

Carlos Rodrigues carlos.efr at mail.telepac.pt
Sat Oct 2 15:33:54 UTC 2004


Carlos Rodrigues wrote:
> Well, I was hoping of a more general solution, like having a log of 
> everything that any X client dumps to the console on a given session (a 
> /var/log/messages alike for X).
> 
> If X crashes I just can't go out and grab some client's console... (I 
> don't even know the culprit then).

I founf it out, GDM redirects the output to 
"/tmp/xses-${USER}.${SOME_RANDOM_CHARS}"

Carlos Rodrigues




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