Viewing the console from X

[Anthony Tekatch]

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 14:10:24 -0500, William O'Higgins <william.ohiggins-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> I have often wanted to see the console output of programs launched from
> X, but the only way that I know is to shut down X and look at the
> underlying console, which obviously wrecks the arrangement of programs,
> windows and associated states that I have built up on X over the hours,
> days or weeks that they X server has been running.

I always just open a console in X then start the program from there. All
errors are visible in the console and the X-program is neatly running in
X.

Anthony
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