Re: [dev] [dmenu] doesn't appear with 2 monitors and no application opened

From: Carlos Torres <vlaadbrain_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 16:45:09 -0400

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-suckless_AT_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.armbruster_AT_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.
>
>
Received on Sat Jun 30 2012 - 22:45:09 CEST