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Re: why does X keep throwing messages on console?



This one time, at band camp, Sandip P Deshmukh said:
> hello all
> 
> when i run X from a console using a simple startx command, off and on,
> i keep getting a line that says
> 
> 'getmodeline etc etc' on the console from where i fired X.
> 
> is there a way to avoid this?

It's just STDOUT and STDERR being displayed there, and it gets logged
for you anyway.  So if you find it irritating, just redirect it to
/dev/null (startx > /dev/null 2>&1)

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