Quoting Michael Welle (mwe012008@gmx.net): > Hello, > > what is the reason that many applications clutter the terminal with > output that is obvisously debug output? Lets take digikam as an > example: (I read most other comments in this thread before writing this) I have to concur to everything that was brought by poeple who *don't* want this debug gibberish to appear either in their terminal or in their ~/.xsession-errors: Here's mine, started yesterday morning....and I barely did nothing since then as I'm more travelling around Vermont that playing with my KDE apps: bubulle@mykerinos:~/travail/debian/translation/po-debconf/gitolite> ls -l ~/.xsession-errors -rw------- 1 bubulle bubulle 2511641 15 août 18:28 /home/bubulle/.xsession-errors That's 2 megabytes of....crap: startkde: Starting up... kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/kde4/libkdeinit/libkdeinit4_klauncher.so Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString) kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/kde4/libkdeinit/libkdeinit4_kded4.so .../... kephald starting up XRANDR error base: 163 RRInput mask is set!! RandRScreen::loadSettings - adding mode: 73 1280 x 800 RandRScreen::loadSettings - adding mode: 74 1280 x 800 .../... And this for gazillion of lines....I should try some day to check ~/.xsession-errors just after I open a session. GNOME zealots will of course laugh and they might be right (at least about this....apart from that, I still favor KDE as desktop environment)...so I really hope there's a way to fix this. I equally hate what clutters my konsole window when I happen to manually launch a KDE app. And, finally, as someone who often leaves his own desktop environment opened for months in the same session, at work, I deeply concur to Holger's comment about wasting space in home directories (mine being constrained to a few gigabytes). Thankfully, there, I'm not using KDE and not even Debian, indeed..:-)
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