I execute a wrapper script implement the restart feature, and within that script I redirect stdout and err to a file. shells that dwm execs happen to go there for me. I've seen dmenu info there...
--Carlos On Jun 30, 2012 3:30 PM, "Kurt H Maier" <khm-suckl...@intma.in> wrote: > 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. > >
