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. Chris -- Chris KeyID 0xE372A7DA98E6705C 31.11972; -97.90167 (Elev. 1092 ft) 10:06:17 up 5 days, 23:24, 2 users, load average: 0.95, 1.04, 0.99 Description: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS, kernel 4.15.0-33-generic
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