On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 04:29:47PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 16:24:12 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 09:11:45 -0500, Dutch Ingraham wrote: > >>TL;DR: One Arch installation will allow redirecting startx's stderr to > >>a file, one won't. What is the difference between systems? > > > >Hi, > > > >what actually was too long to read? > > > >Did you for testing purpose install a display manger, e.g. lightdm? > >Does lightdm or any other DM also not provide the wanted output? If so, > >what does the display manager's log file in /var provide? > > Pardon, your mal was TL;DR, my bad, ok, .xsession-errors is used, here > is output, however, what is mentioned by "Please also check the log file > at "/home/dutch/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log" for additional > information"? Sorry, I should have included information on that; there are no errors at all noted in the xorg.log.