From: Simon Ruderich <simon@ruderich.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 00:55:07 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: zsh/rc: Display errors from ~/.xinitrc.errors on startup.
X-Git-Url: https://ruderich.org/simon/gitweb/?p=config%2Fdotfiles.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=202cacb4e429c5c65ae95fe15e23a0e0da606971

zsh/rc: Display errors from ~/.xinitrc.errors on startup.

See ~/.xinitrc for details.
---

diff --git a/zsh/rc b/zsh/rc
index fc4b4f3..7429b9b 100644
--- a/zsh/rc
+++ b/zsh/rc
@@ -903,6 +903,17 @@ exec 2>>(while read -r -k -u 0 line; do
     print -n $'\0'
 done &)
 
+# Display possible log messages from ~/.xinitrc (if `xmessage` wasn't
+# installed). No race condition as xinitrc has finished before a shell is
+# executed and only one shell is started on login.
+if [[ -f ~/.xinitrc.errors ]]; then
+    echo "${fg_bold[red]}xinitrc failed!${fg_bold[default]}"
+    echo
+    cat ~/.xinitrc.errors
+    rm ~/.xinitrc.errors
+    echo
+fi
+
 # Run the following programs every 4 hours (and when zsh starts).
 PERIOD=14400
 periodic() {