Make location of .xession-errors depend on user configuration #335
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I have extended on the patch in #287 by adding a configuration file variable for lightdm to control how the location of
.xsession-errors
is chosen.I added a
smart-xsession-errors
, which is off by default, that allows to switch from the old behavior (putting it in~/.xsession-errors
) to the algorith suggested in #287This patch is being considered for inclusion in the freebsd ports tree for lightdm [1]. I decided to add a configuration variable and set it to false (implying old behavior), because I don't feel comfortable forcing a change of the location of this file on users. This due to the fact that the location of this file is historical behavior and expected by the users.
[1] https://bugs.freebsd.org/266532 and https://bugs.freebsd.org/275885