X-Git-Url: http://git.hungrycats.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README.debugging;h=6afb2421dca24bfcb1239b4f98fb4d6356cd983a;hb=e4fa2ac140f7bc56571373a7b7eb585fa4500e38;hp=49755066102258ab23555e7b5fa8d9c36c68db87;hpb=06e9a7886a77cad92f9ddbc169d6d199a4d8b76d;p=xscreensaver diff --git a/README.debugging b/README.debugging index 49755066..6afb2421 100644 --- a/README.debugging +++ b/README.debugging @@ -54,15 +54,9 @@ COMPILATION PROBLEMS: Before doing this, you'll need to nuke `config.cache'. - If you get errors about not being able to find Motif or Gtk (the - Xm/ or gtk/ header files), and you can't find them on your system, - then your system is horked and your vendor is lame. Perhaps the - problem is that you don't have some kind of ``development option'' - installed. Xt/is free and available on all systems; Xm/ (Motif) - is available on all commercial systems except SunOS 4.x and some - early releases of Solaris. Linux and other free Unixes systems - usually come with Gtk, but a Motif clone is also available from - http://www.lesstif.org/. + If you get errors about not being able to find Gtk, then perhaps + the problem is that you don't have some kind of ``development + option'' installed. RUN-TIME PROBLEMS: @@ -81,8 +75,8 @@ RUN-TIME PROBLEMS: * Is the problem in the driver (`xscreensaver'), the GUI (`xscreensaver-demo'), or in the graphics hacks? - * If the problem is in the GUI, was it built using - Motif, Lesstif, or Gtk? Which version? + * If the problem is in the GUI, was it built using Gtk, Motif, + or Lesstif? Which version? * If the problem is in one (or more) of the hacks, which ones? If you're not sure, try running `xscreensaver-demo' to go @@ -152,17 +146,11 @@ RUN-TIME PROBLEMS: diagnostics; the `-no-capture' option prevents the data from being displayed on the screensaver window as well.) - You also might want to use the `-timestamp' option, which will - cause the xscreensaver messages to include the time at which - they were printed. - * If the problem is intermittent, you might want to capture the log information to a file and examine it later. For example, you could start it from your login script like this (csh syntax): - ( cd ~/src/xscreensaver/ ; \ - xscreensaver -sync -verbose -timestamp -no-capture \ - >>&LOG & ) + xscreensaver -sync -verbose -no-capture >>& saverlog & * Hackers only: If you're feeling adventurous enough to run gdb on the xscreensaver driver process itself, make sure you've