Xsession script append to ~/.xsession-errors

[Mitch Golden]

On Sun, 24 Sep 2006, Jon Dowland wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 03:58:18PM -0700, Micah J. Cowan
> wrote:
>> I completely disagree with this. Having stderr go to
>> .xsession-errors is extremely helpful, particularly just
>> after you've seen a crash.
>
> Absolutely, I did not say otherwise. What I object to is
> large quantities of verbose output when everything is
> normal. This actually detracts from the usefulness of using
> the stderr as a reporting device for failures, as the useful
> messages are drowned out in the useless ones.

I am brand new to this list, but perhaps I have something useful to add.

I ran into this same issue with new ubuntu install.  It turns out that the 
issue is that the default KDE install comes with debugging to 
.xsession-errors turned on for most KDE facilities.  There's a simple, but 
not sufficiently advertised application for controling it however, called 
kdebugdialog.  If you open it from the command line, you can see 
virtually every dialog box is checked, and they can all be unchecked if 
you want.

   - Mitch