Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org <mailto:wooledg%40eeg.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.
