[arch-general] .xsession-errors - can't startx with that file

Dutch Ingraham stoa at gmx.us
Sun Sep 18 14:55:58 UTC 2016


On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 04:29:47PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 16:24:12 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> >On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 09:11:45 -0500, Dutch Ingraham wrote:
> >>TL;DR: One Arch installation will allow redirecting startx's stderr to
> >>a file, one won't.  What is the difference between systems?  
> >
> >Hi,
> >
> >what actually was too long to read?
> >
> >Did you for testing purpose install a display manger, e.g. lightdm?
> >Does lightdm or any other DM also not provide the wanted output? If so,
> >what does the display manager's log file in /var provide?
> 
> Pardon, your mal was TL;DR, my bad, ok, .xsession-errors is used, here
> is output, however, what is mentioned by "Please also check the log file
> at "/home/dutch/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log" for additional
> information"?

Sorry, I should have included information on that; there are no errors at all
noted in the xorg.log.


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