Bug#596634: x11-common: /etc/X11/Xsession always appends to .xsession-errors
[I'm not a maintainer, just happened be following X bugs...]
Tim Connors <reportbug@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?
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