From: Simon Ruderich <simon@ruderich.org>
Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 11:06:41 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: xinitrc: Write errors to ~/.xinitrc.errors if xmessage is not installed.
X-Git-Url: https://ruderich.org/simon/gitweb/?p=config%2Fdotfiles.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=f15ff4f593c6e84cdfb2adc5ee6f04aaa2211b11

xinitrc: Write errors to ~/.xinitrc.errors if xmessage is not installed.
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diff --git a/xinitrc b/xinitrc
index d3b62b4..fc4582d 100755
--- a/xinitrc
+++ b/xinitrc
@@ -38,7 +38,12 @@ installed() {
     type "$1" >/dev/null 2>&1
 }
 error() {
-    xmessage "$@" &
+    if installed xmessage; then
+        xmessage "$@" &
+    else
+        # Log message to a file which is displayed by my Zsh setup on startup.
+        echo "$@" >> "$HOME/.xinitrc.errors"
+    fi
 }
 # Save PID of the most recently started background process. Used to terminate
 # them when logging out to prevent unused background processes. On some