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gnome-settings-daemon package

  1. Bug #328980
  2. Comment #1

Comment 1 for bug 328980

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Martin von Gagern (gagern) wrote : Re: Pass error messages from xkbcomp to Gnome user

I just confirmed that the stderr of the xkbcomp invocation is redirected to /dev/null, so error messages are indeed completely lost.

A fist step towards sensible error messages would probably be to redirect stderr in libxklavier in such a way that it can be directed into the syslog. This would involve no change to interfaces or other packages, and while being far from optimal, would give users a realistic chance to see their error messages.

Once we have the message available in the current process, and sent to syslog, we could augment the interfaces to pass the message up to gnome-settings-daemon and incorporate it into the error message.