[openbox] Location of debug logs

Ian Zimmerman itz at very.loosely.org
Fri Nov 17 15:16:07 EST 2017


On 2017-11-17 14:46, Dana Jansens wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 12:14 PM, Ian Zimmerman <itz at very.loosely.org>
> wrote:

> > > Openbox logs also go to ~/.cache/openbox/openbox.log by default.
> >
> > I hate this location.  Is it possible to change it in the configuration
> > or on the command line?
> 
> No but you can make a symlink to it (or from it to somewhere else) if you
> want to use another path?

Actually, I tried that.  Symlinking the file itself doesn't work; the
symlink gets replaced with a real file next time openbox starts.

Symlinking the directory works, of course.  It's ugly but I guess it's
the best that can be done short of patching :-P

Thanks.

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