Starting up: errors

Olivier Fourdan fourdan at xfce.org
Wed Apr 7 07:28:50 CEST 2004


Andrew,

On Linux, using "bash" shell, you cab grab the errors using:

startxfce4 > errors.txt 2>&1

Cheers,
Olivier.

On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 03:31, Andrew Conkling wrote:
> I finally got around to figuring out why my ~/.xfce4/* settings were not
> being used to start up on boot.  Turns out that my xinitrc was not
> executable.  (Thanks to Jasper for the online docs!)
> 
> Now I have another problem: when I do start up with it, I get a bunch of
> errors.  The only thing I can get from them is that I don't have
> xfce-session installed (something I'm ok with).  
> 
> I don't know how to capture the output to paste it here.  I tried
> running it as "startxfce4 > ~/xfce.log", but that just gave me one line:
> "/usr/bin/startxfce4: Starting X server".  Not very helpful.
> 
> My xinitrc file is older, from running 4.0.3, so it's possible there are
> inconsistencies between it and what I'm currently running.  If you all
> could help me hone in on the problem, that'd be great.  Sorry I can't
> command more of my own resources.
> 
> Thanks,
> Andrew
> 
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