Re: gtk warning
On 06/21/2017 01:05 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 06/21/2017 10:53 AM, Mike Wright wrote:
> Redirecting to /dev/null doesn't shut them up for me.
>
> Speculating here, but it seems unlikely that GTK is designed for
> unsilenceable spewage and is more likely an unwanted gift from the
> programmer.
>
> I ended up creating a script, "run", that "exec"s another script,
one
> that actually invokes the desired GTK loudmouth via another exec. e.g.
> "run gimp or run rhythmbox", where gimp and rhythmbox are scripts that
> call the executables of the same name. Both scripts redirect 3,2,1
> >/dev/null. (Not sure why but a lot of programmers seem to like to
> open fd3 while others are partial to 5 & 6.) Mysteriously, the second
> script must be executed from its resident directory to get the desired
> results (and it's not a case of executing the executable instead of
> the script). I have callers for each of the GTK programs I use on a
> regular basis.
You're running a graphical application, why do you care what it writes
to the terminal?
Because 90% of my work is CLI. Sometimes I like music, sometimes I have
to do some image manipulation, sometimes I like the news, sometimes I
have to google for things. Not that difficult to imagine.