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Re: How do you turn off XWin.log logging?
- From: "Cary Jamison" <Cary dot Jamison at powerquest dot com>
- To: <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:54:57 -0600
- Subject: Re: How do you turn off XWin.log logging?
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
"Barron Todd - tbarro" <Todd.Barron@acxiom.com> wrote in message CF113269FDACD311AA8C009027DE9D04172F7C90@cwysms00.corp.acxiom.net">news:CF113269FDACD311AA8C009027DE9D04172F7C90@cwysms00.corp.acxiom.net...
> I am using XFree86 with Cygwin and the XWin.log file grows to over 6.0
> gigabytes in size. The only way to clear it is to exit Cygwin and manually
> delete the file. How can I prevent Cygwin/Xfree86 from writing the to log
> file? 6 gigabytes is insanely large for a log file.
I found that if there are X applications drawing to the screen when I lock my windows screen that my log would fill up. Usually the busy X app was just the X screen saver, so I disabled that (don't need two screen savers running!).
Cary
Cary.Jamison@PowerQuest.com