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-rw-r--r--HACKING8
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 476fe618..cb67fc8c 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
2005-05-26 Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
+ * HACKING: Add a clarification that METACITY_VERBOSE needs to be
+ accompanied by METACITY_USE_LOGFILE
+
+2005-05-26 Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
+
* src/window.c (meta_window_configure_request): Patch from Greg
Hudson to make sure window position is calculated correctly for
reconfigure requests when part of the XWindowChanges structure is
diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING
index 640f0ecd..7557f8c1 100644
--- a/HACKING
+++ b/HACKING
@@ -101,9 +101,11 @@ Debugging information
useful to get more information than just warnings. You can set
METACITY_VERBOSE to do that, like so:
METACITY_VERBOSE=1 METACITY_USE_LOGFILE=1 metacity --replace
- There are also other flags, such as METACITY_DEBUG, most of which I
- haven't tried and don't know what they do. Go to the source code
- directory and run
+ (note that METACITY_VERBOSE=1 cannot be used without
+ METACITY_USE_LOGFILE=1 or metacity will crash). There are also
+ other flags, such as METACITY_DEBUG, most of which I haven't tried
+ and don't know what they do. Go to the source code directory and
+ run
grep "METACITY_" * | grep getenv
to find out what the other ones are.