On 16/09/2025 12:36, Michael wrote:
I had deleted it in the past while I was testing sddm with X and Wayland and
in both cases the log file was recreated when I logged in again.
When you log in, the Xserver by default creates a new log file,
something like "~/.Xserver.0.log", and renumbers all the older logs to
.1, .2 etc. I think it went up to .9, giving you a maximum of ten log files.
So logging out and back in *should* rotate the log for you.
I've got a feeling it might be set not to create a new log file if it
can't find an old one, so deleting them all *might* stop new ones being
created.
There's so many weird and wonderful ways these things can be done :-)
and XOrg is directly descended from XFree86, which is directly descended
from something else, so the code base probably goes back to the 80s -
and quite possibly beyond ... I wonder what standard practice was back then!
Cheers,
Wol
