Enable Debugging output from desktop menu commands in XFCE 4.2?

[Colin Stuckless]

On 9/6/07, David Mohr <damailings at mcbf.net> wrote:
> On 9/6/07, Colin Stuckless <cstuckless at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is there a way to turn on debugging output for commands launched from
> > the xfdesktop menu in XFCE 4.2?
> >

>
> You should put a "wait for keypress" into your script at the end --
> then the window will stay open, and after hopefully seeing some error,
> you can insert further debugging echo statements.

Thanks for the advice - I was able to get everything working by
changing the menu cmd entries to call my .csh application scripts in
an xterm like this:

<app name="OpenWorks R2003.12" cmd="xterm -iconic -e
/users/env/prod/ow_linux.csh" />

And with the xterm being iconic, and the final line of the csh script
spawning a new process via '&', the xterm is never visible to the end
user. Nice! Works locally and via a ThinAnywhere session with no
issues.


Thanks,
Colin