Re: sawfish-client and errors on ubuntu

[Rafal Kolanski <rafalk cse unsw edu au>]

Rafal Kolanski wrote:
> [...]
> The errors from sawfish-client apparently should go into 
> .xsession-errors, but on my system once that file gets big enough, 
> logging there is stopped. I would like to redirect the sawfish-client 
> errors to somewhere else but can't seem to manage it. Setting 
> error-destination to screen doesn't do anything.
> [...]

I've also tried taking the latest sawfish-client.jl and running that, no 
luck.
If I write in sawfish-client:
(bind-keys window-keymap "H-a" '(3 . 3))

Then pressing H-a plonks down a pretty "Invalid function: 3" on my 
screen. So sawfish errors are definitely going to my screen, yet any 
errors in sawfish-client are going nowhere (probably to 
.xsession-errors, which gets turned off on modern systems after it gets 
big enough with no real way to turn it back on).

There is a bug report from 2007 that describes exactly what I mean:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sawfish/+bug/175084

Looking at sawfish-client.jl I think I see an attempt to set 
standard-error to standard-output, do some kind of repl-iterate into an 
output stream, then get the result of that stream and dump it to 
standard-output. Does anyone know how this works?

How do people who write sawfish scripts do it with a repl that sends all 
errors to some mysterious location?

Sincerely,

Rafal Kolanski.