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| Newer page: | version 3 | Last edited on Sunday, March 18, 2007 2:26:47 pm | by LawrenceDoliveiro | |
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-The file xsession-errors in your home directory contains anything written to Standard Error by GUI-based programs. If such a program crashes or fails to start, it can be useful to look at the last few lines in this file to see if any messages shed light on the problem:
+The file <tt>.
xsession-errors</tt>
in your home directory contains anything written to Standard Error by GUI-based programs launched from a desktop environment
. If such a program crashes or fails to start, it can be useful to look at the last few lines in this file to see if any messages shed light on the problem:
<verbatim>
less ~/.xsession-errors
</verbatim>
+Note this only applies to GUI programs ''launched from a desktop environment'' (e.g. from desktop menus or icons). GUI-based programs launched from a terminal session will normally write their errors back to that terminal session, unless you redirect them.
__Availability__: present under all modern Linux distros.
