On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 03:14:40PM -0400, Andrew Hills wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Uli Armbruster
> <uli.armbrus...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > After booting my laptop with an external monitor connected, I cannot run 
> > dmenu_run, it simply doesn't show up. I don't know how to give you more 
> > specific informations like terminal output, because as soon as I open a 
> > terminal, it works.
> 
> Usually the output for your window manager (which is where errors will
> end up) ends up in Xorg.log, or ~/.vnc/[host:port].log if you're
> running a VNC server. If your window manager is running on a different
> machine than your X server, though... I have no idea.
> 
> --Andrew Hills
> 

could be ~/.xsession-errors, if you used a login manager.  
client data isn't recorded in /var/log/Xorg.0.log.  if you used
startx you can use ctrl+alt+f1 or whatever to switch back to the tty you
launched from and get the client output there.

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