> This problem just should be fixed.  A running Debian system
> just kills itself by filling the hard disk with
> .xsession-errors files. . .

Yes, yes, please fix it.

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. Then I find this nearly-6-year request.

> I fixed it by editing my /etc/X11/Xsession:
>
> Changed this:
> exec >>"$ERRFILE" 2>&1
>
> to be like this:
> exec >"$ERRFILE" 2>&1
>
> Now the .xsession-errors file is initialized everytime when
> a user logs in.

That seems to be a reasonable and easy fix to me.

Hope it can be included soon.

Thanks

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