id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	blockedby	blocking	notify_on_close	platform	project
1882	Show errors that occur before main window started in GUI log	Tom Goddard	Greg Couch	"When an error occurs before the main window is shown the error goes to the shell, stderr.  But on macOS or Windows this error is then never seen.  It would be desirable to send the error to stderr but also remember it and if the ChimeraX GUI starts also show it in the GUI log panel.

At last weeks 3d microscopy tutorial, 1/4 of participants got blank graphics when opening any model.  There were no errors.  Later testing showed that at startup a resize event caused rendering before opengl was setup giving an error and disabling graphics.  That error only went to the shell.  This would have been trivial to debug if the startup error had been remembered and put into the GUI log panel.
"	enhancement	closed	moderate		UI		fixed		Eric Pettersen				all	ChimeraX