[I'm not a maintainer, just happened be following X bugs...] Tim Connors <report...@rather.puzzling.org> writes: > before the user gets to review them, they can always log into the > console and review the errors before they restart X.
Always might be too strong word. On my PDA I don't have a physical keyboard, the only way to read .xsession-errors is via X or by connecting a laptop. And on my laptop switching virtual consoles sometimes fails if I have used suspend... > This is particularly insidious when the disk is full because something > was writing lots of crap to ~/.xsession-errors. That crap is not I think this is the real problem and applications should be fixed to limit their error output. > because of too much crap emitted to ~/.xsession-errors? Well, just > let the unsophisticated user log out and log back in again. How about a compromise? Could we truncate all but the last 1000 lines in /etc/X11/Xsession? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/84pqwi9spm....@sauna.l.org
