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[Bob Proulx]

Chad Perrin wrote:
> I find that when a GUI program is misbehaving, it is often helpful to try
> starting the application by entering its name at a shell prompt rather
> than by clicking on something or selecting from a GUI menu.  When doing
> that, GUI programs that misbehave might give somewhat useful output in
> the shell sessions from which you launched it.

Agreed.  I always go first to the command line to get good feedback.

For information from the GUI many times this information is placed in
your ~/.xsession-errors file.  That is a catch-all for all output from
your X session and is inherited by all of the GUI applications started
from it.  It usually has a lot of noise in the file since there are a
lot of noisy GUI programs.  But if you can wade through the noise
there are often useful errors reported there.  Can be useful.

Bob