From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15203 invoked by alias); 26 Nov 2012 18:35:36 -0000 Received: (qmail 15081 invoked by uid 22791); 26 Nov 2012 18:35:35 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_NEUTRAL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from orchid.mail.cornell.edu (HELO orchid.mail.cornell.edu) (132.236.56.61) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 18:35:31 +0000 Received: from authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (granite2.mail.cornell.edu [128.253.83.142]) by orchid.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id qAQIZU85015953 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:35:31 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (cpe-67-249-194-47.twcny.res.rr.com [67.249.194.47]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id qAQIZT3l006894 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:35:30 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <50B3B660.2050403@cornell.edu> Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 18:35:00 -0000 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120824 Thunderbird/15.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree Subject: Implement ~/.xsession-errors? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-CORNELL-SPAM-CHECKED: Pawpaw X-Original-Sender: kbrown@cornell.edu - Mon Nov 26 13:35:30 2012 X-PMX-CORNELL-REASON: CU_White_List_Override X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2012-11/txt/msg00031.txt.bz2 I'm wondering whether it's feasible for the Cygwin X-server to redirect stderr to ~/.xsession-errors for programs started under the server, as is done on some Linux systems. This would be useful for two reasons. First, some programs emit warnings that can be ignored, and it would be nice if users could avoid seeing those every time they start the program. Second, and more importantly, standard error is often lost, for instance for programs started by ~/.startxwinrc. It could be useful for package maintainers to be able to ask users to send the contents of ~/.xsession-errors. Ken -- 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/