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From: Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Cc: kbrown@cornell.edu Subject: Re: Issue with XWin under xlaunch Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:54:00 -0000 [thread overview] Message-ID: <4F96946A.4070406@dronecode.org.uk> (raw) In-Reply-To: <4F956F70.4080900@cornell.edu> On 23/04/2012 16:04, Ken Brown wrote: >> I've added some code to capture stdout and stderr from these subprocesses to >> the X server log, and to more clearly diagnose problems which could occur >> while fork/exec-ing them. > > Would it be possible for you to also add some code for diagnosing problems with processes started from .startxwinrc? I'm hoping it might help with the problem I reported in > > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2012-04/msg00050.html Hmm.. not sure code is really needed. You can see the output from startxwin by running it from a terminal, or capture it by changing the shortcut which runs it to something like the following (perhaps we should do that by default) C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c '/usr/bin/startxwin.exe >>/var/log/xwin/startxwin.log 2>&1' -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-24 11:54 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2012-04-11 10:24 Eliot Moss 2012-04-23 13:51 ` Jon TURNEY 2012-04-23 15:04 ` Ken Brown 2012-04-24 11:54 ` Jon TURNEY [this message] 2012-04-24 13:27 ` Ken Brown 2012-04-23 16:42 ` Eliot Moss 2012-04-23 16:46 ` Eliot Moss 2012-04-24 11:40 ` Jon TURNEY 2012-04-24 12:23 ` Eliot Moss
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