Re: HUGE .xsession-error file

On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 10:46:25AM -0700, Siri Amrit Kaur wrote:
>
> > Even though you
> > didn't delete a message 689 times _right now_, over time these
> > messages will build up. (btw: the $HOME/dead.letter.tmp file is
> > typically created when you start writing a reply email and then
> > cancel it)
>
> Well I had a letter in composition that sat unfinished overnight
> until this morning, when I deleted it. I didn't delete it 689 times,
> though. And since I deleted the contents of .xsession-errors
> yesterday, the 689 messages had to have been about that one letter.
> Any idea why it repeats itself so many times?

This is likely because of something else running in the background
somewhere -- I believe someone else posted about it earlier. Try
looking for any extraneous dead.letter.tmp files in the other home
directories on your system and looking at the contents. It will likely
explain more than I can. =o)

> > If, instead, you're looking at wanting to just clean out the
> > .xsession-error every time you start X, simply add the following
> > line to the top of your $HOME/.xsesssion file:
> >

> >      /bin/echo >$HOME/.xsession-errors

> >
> > This will cause the file to be truncated every time you start X.
> >
> > Hope that helps some. =o)
>
> This helps a LOT! I think I'll try adding the line to the top of
> the .xsession-errors file. That way if I ever need to see what's
> happening it'll all be there until the next time I log out and log in
> again.

Well, it won't be executed in the .xsession-errors file -- you need to
put it into your .xsession file instead (.xsession is typically run
like a shell script every time you start X). Also, how do you normally
start KDE? From a graphical login manager, or straight from the shell?

--
June Tate * http://www.theonelab.com * june@theonelab.com
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