On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 02:36:02PM -0600, Jack Schneider wrote: > Tried the failsafe Gnome-Terminal, Terminal is fine when I login as > alternate-user, but when I login as myself it continues to fail...8-( > > Tried the strace procedure the Jurriaan suggested. and the diff > returned a null output. so it seems that starting gnome-terminal does > not give a traceable error.. unless I screwed up again...8-) > I hope I'm not interfering with your day... Thanks for your efforts and > guidance....
You would have to do something like: strace gnometerminalprogram 2> logfile All output from strace is on stderr not stdout. otherwise you end up with a log containing only the output of the terminal program, not the strace. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]