On Thu, 2018-09-06 at 10:10 -0500, Chris wrote: > On Thu, 2018-09-06 at 16:00 +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > On 2018-09-06 1:53 p.m., Chris wrote: > > > On Thu, 2018-09-06 at 12:21 +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > > On 2018-09-05 9:16 p.m., Adam Jackson wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 2018-09-01 at 10:24 -0500, Chris wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > When starting Evolution this is output to syslog and > > > > > > periodically > > > > > > after it's running: > > > > > > > > > > > > https://pastebin.com/zndBukUG > > > > > > > > > > Evolution, or something it provokes, is asking the server for > > > > > the > > > > > list > > > > > of available video modes. It's doing so with > > > > > XRRGetScreenResources(), > > > > > apparently, which prompts the X server to go re-check every > > > > > available > > > > > output to see if anything has changed. This is silly, it > > > > > should > > > > > be > > > > > using XRRGetScreenResourcesCurrent() and relying on hotplug > > > > > events > > > > > to > > > > > trigger re-polling. Now, maybe the X server shouldn't print > > > > > the > > > > > modes > > > > > in the log when that happens, [...] > > > > > > > > FWIW, it probably shouldn't indeed, at least not at the default > > > > log > > > > verbosity. > > > > > > > > > > AFAICT my rsyslog.conf it's the default. I don't know if > > > uncommenting > > > these lines would help or not: > > > > > > ### Debugging ### > > > # $DebugFile /var/log/rsyslog-debug > > > # $DebugLevel 2 > > > > > > # syslog.* /var/log/syslog.debug;RSYSLOG_DebugFormat > > > # $DebugFile /var/log/syslog.debug > > > # $DebugLevel 2 > > > > Yeah, sorry, different meaning of "should" — the code definitely > > always > > has printed these by default, it just arguably shouldn't. > > > > Anyway, Adam is right that the client shouldn't use this > > functionality > > in the first place. > > > > Besides the bug report submitted at Ubuntu Launchpad that I mentioned > in my original post I've also submitted them as noted below. > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/1788739 > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107841 > > https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/issues/418 > > The reasoning for this is I'm just not exactly who's purview this > would > come under. > I thought I'd add that this also happens when starting and stopping XFE
xfe: Installed: 1.42-1 Candidate: 1.42-1 -- Chris KeyID 0xE372A7DA98E6705C 31.11972; -97.90167 (Elev. 1092 ft) 19:44:42 up 13:06, 1 user, load average: 0.58, 0.49, 0.54 Description: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS, kernel 4.15.0-34-generic
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