[openbox] How to Debug an OpenBox programming change?

[Dana Jansens]

Generally I use Xephyr if I need to use gdb on openbox.

Openbox logs also go to ~/.cache/openbox/openbox.log by default.

--help lists all the options to turn on debug output.


On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Jim Rees <rees at umich.edu> wrote:

> I've got this in my .xsession:
>
> if (-f openbox.log && -x src/openbox/$CPU/openbox/.libs/openbox) then
>   exec src/openbox/$CPU/openbox/.libs/openbox --debug >>openbox.log
>
> So if I have a log file in my home directory, then openbox gets started
> with
> --debug and sends its output to the log file. If you don't use .xsession I
> don't know how you'd do this but there must be a way.
>
> You can also run gdb on openbox from another console or ssh session but
> it's
> a bit of a pain and I haven't found I need it very often.
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