hidden error messages

Michael R. Head burner at suppressingfire.org
Fri Feb 23 17:41:31 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 12:51 +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Mike Cornelison [2007-02-22 16:09 +0100]:
> > When a GUI application outputs error messages to stdout or stderr, it is 
> > like writing them into a black hole. 
> 
> They are actually supposed to go to ~/.xsession-errors. Please file
> bugs if that doesn't happen for a particular case. At least it works
> fine for me with f-spot under Gnome.

It works fine until there's too much output and .xsession-errors starts
being truncated:
...Too much output, ignoring rest...

mike

> Thanks,
> 
> Martin
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