Re: ~/.xsession-errors file grows way too big

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

On 2010-05-19 18:18 +0200, T o n g wrote:

> I am astonished to find out that my ~/.xsession-errors grows to a 
> humongous 640M! My wife's is nearly 400M as well. This is way way too 
> big. 
>
> I took a look, the reason and cure is very simple -- having X to trunk it 
> each time when started 
> (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=287876)
> whereas currently, my ~/.xsession-errors kept logs back to stone age. 
>
> However, such reasonable request has been tabled for 6 years now. The DD 
> gave loads of irrelevant reasons as excuse of not fixing it. Ref:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=276545
>
> Any comment? 

You may want to follow up on these bugs, since the _current_ X
developers in Debian never spoke up.  And I think that there is so much
crapware that puts out useless junk on stderr or stdout (the worst
offender is KDE4 software, until you find out that is possible to put an
end to this by running kdebugdialog) that the battle to make
~/.xsession-errors useful has long been lost.

Sven

-- 
% grep errors ~/.xsession
> ~/.xsession-errors