<quote who="Laurie Savage">

> When Gimp crashes/freezes (which is more often than I like) it produces an
> .xsession-error file that fills the available space on /home/~. I cannot
> open the file - too large for emacs or vim.
> 
> I have googled but have not found anything that helps me. "Grokking the
> Gimp", man gimp and online docs haven't helped me or I have overlooked
> something. Does gimp have a command line switch that disables writing to
> this file?

No, as .xsession-errors is not written to directly by GIMP. What you could
try is running GIMP from a terminal, and sending all of the error output to
/dev/null, like this:

  gimp 2> /dev/null

When you run it from your panel, all of that output is farted into the
.xsession-errors file. So, you could change your GIMP launcher to run it
this way as well, thus saving the .xsession-errors file.

To see the weird stuff being sent into this file, type:

  tail .xsession-errors

That will give you the last ten lines.

> I resorted to deleting the .xsession-errors. An unexpected result is the 
> loss of my mozilla bookmarks file. I cannot explain how this happened as 
> Mozilla was not open. This Mozilla corruption has happened both times Gimp 
> has crashed this badly.

No idea why that would happen.

- Jeff

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