Other Which graphical file managers give full error messages, incl. errno?

cracauer@

cracauer@

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Inspired by a recent thread where files were eaten without error message:

Which graphical file managers give full error messages, incl. errno? Presumably it shouldn't be printed to stderr, but that is better than nothing. Ideally there should be a dialog box with the text.
 
Unfortunately I'd say, probably none. It goes against the "dumb it down" philosophy of a GUI...which is why guys like you and I always end up going back to the command line to get stuff done.
 
sometimes running said gui file managers by starting them from a terminal gives those messages (and most of the times tons of stuff unneeded...) i got into the habit of doing that instead of calling them with a (d)menu or whatever.
sadly also some tui fm do the same thing and i recently shifted to nnn and tmux (i am fond of double panel fms). it seems it spits out messages by reverting to the console and waiting there when something goes wrong.
sorry i'm not bringing any solution per se.
 
Oh boy. Well, over Christmas I will have a look. Expecting a little shop of horrors.

What's the best error to trigger? Obviously a disk full destination is easy to set up. But that would fail to fail if the file manager is smart enough to check available space beforehand. Pulling a USB stick while the transfer is rolling? Permission errors?
 
One thing that always interested me is the Xorg console messages.
These are available when you are running Xorg. <CTL> <ALT> <F1> Shows them.
Many of these are not logged in Xorg.log you can only see them with <F1> terminal or when shutting down X Server the messages flash by.
I see playing a certain video in MPV results in "fd -l not found" and other sketchy messages and it makes me wonder what is embedded in that video. Only <F1> terminal shows these messages. They are not logged.
Maybe my debug level is not set right but some of these messages are helpful.
 
cracauer@ said:
Oh boy. Well, over Christmas I will have a look. Expecting a little shop of horrors.

What's the best error to trigger? Obviously a disk full destination is easy to set up. But that would fail to fail if the file manager is smart enough to check available space beforehand. Pulling a USB stick while the transfer is rolling? Permission errors?
Click to expand...
you can try to send a bunch of files with one having a funky character in the name to a fat32 usb thumbdrive it always works... or rather fails!
 
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