On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 02:10:15AM GMT, Jonathan Thornburg wrote:
> In a fresh install of 6.6/amd64, if I login on a console as a non-root
> user and start X via 'startx', the X server tries to write log information
> in the file
> $HOME/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log
>
> I have two questions:
> 1. Is there any way to change the directory
> $HOME/.local/share/xorg/
> in which the X server logfile is written?
> 2. This being OpenBSD, is there a Fine Manual in which this configuration
> is documented?
>
> None of
> man Xorg
> man Xserver
> man startx
> man xinit
> man xorg.conf
> man xorg.conf.d
> man -k log|egrep '^X'
> cd /etc/ && find . -type f | xargs fgrep share/xorg
> cd /usr/X11R6/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ \
> && find . -type f | xargs fgrep share/xorg
> cd /usr/X11R6/share/X11/ \
> && find . -type f | xargs fgrep share/xorg
> cd /usr/X11R6/share/ \
> && find . -type f | xargs fgrep share/xorg
> or grepping my (minimal) /etc/x11/xorg.conf have thus far yielded any
> relevant info.
>
> (The reason I'd like to change this directory is that in my setup
> $HOME/.local is a symlink to a different filesystem which may not yet
> be mounted at the time when 'startx' is run.)
>
Hi Jonathan,
The right places, but the wrong string:
$ man 1 Xorg
[...]
-logfile filename
Use the file called filename as the Xorg server log
file. The default log file when running as root
is /var/log/Xorg.n.log and for non root it is
$XDG_DATA_HOME/xorg/Xorg.n.log where n is the display
number of the Xorg server. The default may be in
a different directory on some platforms. This
option is only available when the server is run as
root (i.e, with real- uid 0).
[...]
The '.local/share' should have hinted at $XDG_DATA_HOME[0] :^)
[0] https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
Regards,
Raf
