[tde-users] Re: Kdesktop runaway

On 4/18/25 12:59 PM, deloptes via tde-users wrote:

and what says .xsession-errors, dmesg, syslog?

Do you see there something suspicious?

I am not the OP, but my experience is desktop environments (DEs) do a poor job of logging. Logs such as /var/log/messages|syslog|dmesg are primarily at the operating system level.

Historically the user's .xsession-errors log has been the only portal for DEs to record events. If the underlying code doesn't spit out anything to stdout/stderr then nothing is recorded.

Sometimes I have wondered why all DEs don't have a verbose DEBUG environment variable. That would produce some overwhelming logs, but the variable would be enabled only when troubleshooting.