Re: FVWM: deprecated? placing firestorm windows?

Dan Espen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.window-managers.fvwm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
hw <[email protected]> writes:

> Dan Espen <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> hw <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>>> Dominik Vogt <[email protected]> writes:
>>>> No, in the output of the X server, wherever that goes.
>>>
>>> After trying to get systemd to create log files, it apparently goes into
>>> /var/log/Xorg.0.log (where it might have gone to before).  Alas, no
>>> output is added to the log file when I use this option and create
>>> windows.
>>
>> It's pretty unlikely the window manager output would go there.
>> It's much more likely to be somewhere like:
>>
>> .xsession-errors
>>
>> in your home directory.
>
> Hm, I have this file --- last modified in 2014.  Hm.  .xsession is from
> 1996 (I better figure out what that does), .xsel.log from 2015, and I
> can remove .xsession-errors and .xsel-log.
>
> So where else might this output go?

Maybe if you mentioned the distro you run and the run level you boot to.
I'd expect something in $HOME, /tmp, or perhaps /var/tmp.  If you use a
.xinitrc you can have the WM output directed where ever you like
otherwise the distro will pick a place.

-- 
Dan Espen
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