Problems with "startx"

[Brian McKee]

On Friday, September 24, 2004, at 03:09  PM, Dakidd wrote:

>
> I've got YDL up and running on a PM7600 G3/300, and I'm hitting a
> weirdness, if not outright problem - I can get KDE up and running, but 
> I've
> got a mess of errors (or what I assume are problems, at least) that 
> need to
> be fixed.
{snippage}
> Second, is there some way to capture *ALL* screen output from the 
> startx
> script (Don't say "startx >> somefile" - "somefile" is invariably
> zero-length when I leave KDE) so I can trace what's going on? I type
> "startx", and after seeing what I *THINK* is the text
>
try startx > somefile 2>&1

That will get you the errors
(man bash for gory details why)

Brian