Re: junk on tty after x crash

[Thomas Adam <thomas@edulinux.homeunix.org>]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 11:12:52AM +0200, Andrej Hocevar wrote:
> Hello,
> this is very disturbing -- when my X server doesn't shut down smoothly,
> it leaves some junk behind on the tty it was running on. The result is
> that next time I startx, it doesn't use the same tty anymore. 
> 
> What can I do to get rid of this annoying problem?

I'm not sure what the problem is here. If you mean you want to surpress the
output that startx produces, do:

startx > /dev/null 2>&1

If you'd rather keep it for later:

startx > ~/.startx-output.log 2>&1

Or am I not understanding your problem?

-- Thomas Adam
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