X-Git-Url: http://git.hungrycats.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=xscreensaver;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README.debugging;h=31364dbffbc354c330ba5ca1ae4fe63943d0a6c5;hp=f5ca66eb5b38d374a8d7158965f3d97699911a84;hb=c31d10b6605cd8dc1a7b61fef4256f06198767e5;hpb=2a991a811de4c7b22f812682b267b616a809fd9a diff --git a/README.debugging b/README.debugging index f5ca66eb..31364dbf 100644 --- a/README.debugging +++ b/README.debugging @@ -78,18 +78,15 @@ RUN-TIME PROBLEMS: * What platform are you running on? What does the included `./config.guess' shell script print? - * Is the problem in the driver, or in the graphics hacks? + * Is the problem in the driver (`xscreensaver'), the GUI + (`xscreensaver-demo'), or in the graphics hacks? - * If the problem is in the driver, was the driver built using + * If the problem is in the GUI, was the it built using Motif, Lesstif, or Athena? Which version? * If the problem is in one (or more) of the hacks, which ones? - If you're not sure, try - - xscreensaver-command -demo - - to go through the list of them and see which work and which - don't. + If you're not sure, try running `xscreensaver-demo' to go + through the list of them and see which work and which don't. * Does the problem occur when running that hack by hand, in its own window (i.e., when started with no command-line args)? @@ -138,12 +135,12 @@ RUN-TIME PROBLEMS: * Start `xscreensaver' with the command-line arguments - -verbose -no-capture-stderr + -verbose -no-capture This will cause it to write a lot of debugging info to the stderr of the xscreensaver process (the `-verbose' option turns on the - diagnostics; the `-no-capture-stderr' option prevents the data - from being displayed on the screensaver window as well.) + 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 @@ -154,7 +151,7 @@ RUN-TIME PROBLEMS: you could start it from your login script like this (csh syntax): ( cd ~/src/xscreensaver/ ; \ - xscreensaver -sync -verbose -timestamp -no-capture-stderr \ + xscreensaver -sync -verbose -timestamp -no-capture \ >>&LOG & ) * Hackers only: If you're feeling adventurous enough to run gdb