Re: How to Debug an OpenBox programming change?
Dana Jansens <[email protected]>
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Generally I use Xephyr if I need to use gdb on openbox. Openbox logs also go to ~/.cache/openbox/openbox.log by default. --help lists all the options to turn on debug output. On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Jim Rees <[email protected]> wrote: > I've got this in my .xsession: > > if (-f openbox.log && -x src/openbox/$CPU/openbox/.libs/openbox) then > exec src/openbox/$CPU/openbox/.libs/openbox --debug >>openbox.log > > So if I have a log file in my home directory, then openbox gets started > with > --debug and sends its output to the log file. If you don't use .xsession I > don't know how you'd do this but there must be a way. > > You can also run gdb on openbox from another console or ssh session but > it's > a bit of a pain and I haven't found I need it very often. > _______________________________________________ > openbox mailing list > [email protected] > http://icculus.org/mailman/listinfo/openbox > _______________________________________________ openbox mailing list [email protected] http://icculus.org/mailman/listinfo/openbox