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- From: mengel@dcdmwm.fnal.gov (Marc Mengel)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix
- Subject: Proposed addition to FAQ
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 16:18:06 GMT
- Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia IL
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- Keywords: startup problems, etc.
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- We should mention in the FAQ that when starting the X server to debug
- problems you should run "X >& errors" in csh or "X > errors 2>&1" because
- the output to stdout/stderr gets lost when the server starts up. This is
- fairly obvious once you think of it; but you can spend days not finding out you
- don't have a default font if you don't think of it...
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- Marc Mengel
- mengel@fnal.fnal.gov
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