Do Linux desktop environments log the stdout and stderr of GUI applications?
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Sometimes when I am having an issue with a graphical application I launch it from a terminal emulator to see if it is reporting a problem via the standard output and standard error streams. Often this reveals an error message that I can throw at an online search engine.
Is there a way to get this same info without launching the program from the terminal? If I launch a GUI application normally (from GNOME's launcher, for example) and fails to run, crashes, or runs into another issue, is there a way for me to find out what it printed to stdout and stderr after the fact?
Searching around the web I found some people mentioning a .xsession-errors file but that is not present on my system (Fedora 27 with GNOME 26 on Wayland).
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Sometimes when I am having an issue with a graphical application I launch it from a terminal emulator to see if it is reporting a problem via the standard output and standard error streams. Often this reveals an error message that I can throw at an online search engine.
Is there a way to get this same info without launching the program from the terminal? If I launch a GUI application normally (from GNOME's launcher, for example) and fails to run, crashes, or runs into another issue, is there a way for me to find out what it printed to stdout and stderr after the fact?
Searching around the web I found some people mentioning a .xsession-errors file but that is not present on my system (Fedora 27 with GNOME 26 on Wayland).
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It's called "the journal" and you can view its content withjournalctl.
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Sometimes when I am having an issue with a graphical application I launch it from a terminal emulator to see if it is reporting a problem via the standard output and standard error streams. Often this reveals an error message that I can throw at an online search engine.
Is there a way to get this same info without launching the program from the terminal? If I launch a GUI application normally (from GNOME's launcher, for example) and fails to run, crashes, or runs into another issue, is there a way for me to find out what it printed to stdout and stderr after the fact?
Searching around the web I found some people mentioning a .xsession-errors file but that is not present on my system (Fedora 27 with GNOME 26 on Wayland).
linux freedesktop
asked Feb 25 at 17:46
hugomg
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Sometimes when I am having an issue with a graphical application I launch it from a terminal emulator to see if it is reporting a problem via the standard output and standard error streams. Often this reveals an error message that I can throw at an online search engine.
Is there a way to get this same info without launching the program from the terminal? If I launch a GUI application normally (from GNOME's launcher, for example) and fails to run, crashes, or runs into another issue, is there a way for me to find out what it printed to stdout and stderr after the fact?
Searching around the web I found some people mentioning a .xsession-errors file but that is not present on my system (Fedora 27 with GNOME 26 on Wayland).
linux freedesktop
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asked Feb 25 at 17:46
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It's called "the journal" and you can view its content withjournalctl.
– don_crissti
Feb 25 at 17:47
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It's called "the journal" and you can view its content withjournalctl.
– don_crissti
Feb 25 at 17:47
It's called "the journal" and you can view its content with
journalctl.– don_crissti
Feb 25 at 17:47
It's called "the journal" and you can view its content with
journalctl.– don_crissti
Feb 25 at 17:47
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It's called "the journal" and you can view its content with
journalctl.– don_crissti
Feb 25 at 17:47