GUI applications writing garbage to stdout/stderr

[Reindl Harald]

Am 15.01.2015 um 00:29 schrieb Alexander Ploumistos:
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 1:16 AM, Björn Persson <Bjorn at rombobjörn.se
> <mailto:Bjorn at rombobjörn.se>> wrote:
>
>     If they don't have such a build-time option, then what I'm saying is
>     that if one were to suppress the messages, then one should do it with a
>     run-time option, not a build-time option. Then no different build would
>     be needed and debugging would be easy.
>
> No argument from me there. I just hate it when things start dying and
> leave you clueless (without as much as a -v option). And let's not
> forget that a special debug build may not suffer from the same issues as
> the "regular" one. It has happened to me on occasion.
> Perhaps over the years I've grown accustomed to the gibberish in my
> terminal and started considering it normal, instead of buggy, as Reindl
> Harald points out

the real problem with that crap messages is that if you are about 
writing a longer command line and the in background mode started GUI app 
decides to blow out it's helpful messages they appear unasked in the 
middle of your input and so the only thing you can do is CTRL+C and hope 
the next try don't get interrupted again

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