On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 04:27:42PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > I don't often here fail to find a current /var/log/Xorg.0.log. I think what's > happening is the one in .local/share/ is getting copied to /var/log/ so that > it > remains available in the location people historically expect, where Googling > will suggest to look, plus the typing is easier with no shifts required and > fewer characters to type.
Absolutely not true in my case. wooledg:~$ ls -l /var/log/Xorg.0.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46028 Apr 10 10:13 /var/log/Xorg.0.log wooledg:~$ ls -l ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log -rw-r--r-- 1 wooledg voice 24472 Jul 24 08:10 /home/wooledg/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log How would your idea even *work*? The X server can't write to /var/log because it doesn't have EUID 0 privileges any more. It writes to this file in the home directory because that's the only place it's sure to be able to open. There's simply no short-cutting it: the X server's log can be in either of these two places, and you need to check both.
