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Re: The .xsession-errors problem

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On Mi, 28 oct 20, 15:28:37, David wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Oct 2020 at 00:45, Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On my system the file is rotated (renamed to .xsession-errors.old), on
> > every login as far as I can tell.
> 
> > Didn't find (yet) what is doing this (using lightdm, LXDE and minimal
> > Xorg).
> 
> I had a curiosity about this, because some people are reporting that they
> need to manage their growing .xsession-errors file by various methods,
> but I never have seen this.
> 
> I see the same behaviour as Andrei, and I also use parts of LXDE.
> 
> I investigated, guided by this teaching from Reco:
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2020/04/msg00583.html
> 
> I found that the process that renames the file to .xsession-errors.old
> is the binary /usr/bin/lxsession owned by the user, with the parent
> process lightdm owned by root.
> 
> /usr/bin/lxsession is a component of LXDE, so this won't apply to
> users of other GUI providers.
> 
> The rename occurs when the user logs in from lightdm. The filename
> .xsession-errors is defined in the script file /etc/X11/Xsession
 
Indeed, I tried 'startx' and the file wasn't rotated, so it must be 
something about how lightdm starts the LXDE session.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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