Troubleshooting

Virtual Environment

It can be helpful to run sdorfehs under a virtual X11 screen to retain control over your normal development environment and see stdout/stderr output from your compiled sdorfehs binary.

Using Xephyr can help create a new virtual screen. This script also sets a different escape sequence of C-b to avoid clashing with the normal default.

#!/bin/sh

export XDG_CONFIG_HOME=`mktemp -d`

Xephyr :1 -screen 2500x1500 &
export DISPLAY=:1

sleep 1
xrandr --output default --primary

cat > $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/sdorfehs/config <<END
escape C-b
END

./sdorfehs &
SPID=$!

# not sure why this has to run after sdorfehs starts
xrdb < ~/.Xdefaults

wait $SPID
kill %1