Any update on this? I'd love to move xsession-errors file out of my SSD
to minimize writes.
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Title:
lightdm uses a hardcoded path to
I also find it the current lack of flexibility highly inconvenient.
However, none of the alternatives proposed in the comments above really
cut it as far as I'm concerned. Here is how I'd like to be able to set
up our desktops (users' home directories are on network shares and have
quota imposed
I log onto a couple different machines using my common network account (i.e. a
shared HOME).
I really need a way to set my .xsession-errors file to be host specific, so
that my concurrent
sessions don't stomp on each other.
I recommend a boolean configuration option for lightdm.config to use a
** Changed in: lightdm
Status: Confirmed = Triaged
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Title:
lightdm uses a hardcoded path to .xsession-errors, please make it
I second this
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Title:
lightdm uses a hardcoded path to .xsession-errors, please make it
configurable
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GDM 3.6 uses $XDG_CACHE_HOME/gdm/session.log (which by default is
~/.cache/gdm/session.log). If somebody wants to change the default
location to minimize writes, it would be more effective for them to just
need to change a single environment variable.
See also
Uh, this drives me crazy.
I've spent half an hour trying to find out what's happening with my
.xsession-errors symlink and tracked it down to lightdm itself.
I believe lightdm shouldn't touch this file at all — let scripts in
Xession.d adjust everything.
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** Also affects: lightdm
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: lightdm (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided = Wishlist
** Changed in: lightdm
Importance: Undecided = Wishlist
** Changed in: lightdm
Status: New = Confirmed
** Changed in: lightdm (Ubuntu)
