Jeff Waugh wrote:
<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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