Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:
Check the time stamp on the Xorg.0.log file. You are probably reading the wrong one.
Indeed I was. Thanks.
Since Debian 9, there are *two* possible locations for the Xorg.0.log file: /var/log/ (if X was executed with root privileges) ~/.local/share/xorg/ (if X was executed without root privs)
So I'm curious. Since X is running before I log in, how does it know to write the log file to my home directory?
And if this is a newer thing, it's puzzling that booting the newer kernel causes X to write to /var/log while under the older kernel it writes to my directory.