tlug: X log files

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Frank" == Frank Bennett <bennett@example.com> writes:

    Frank> When I use two Xterms to directly query an xdm login server
    Frank> and login to the same account, one of them downgrades
    Frank> badly; menu response under the mouse cursor gets really
    Frank> very sluggish, sometimes taking several seconds to catch
    Frank> up.

Xterm[sic] is a program; you mean "X terminal", right?

    Frank> At the moment, the X11R6 hierarchy is shared by both
    Frank> Xterms, and writable.

I don't see where you would have a problem with this.  What could be
very strange is if the two X terminals share a /tmp directory and try
to use the same Unix-domain socket.  You might also look in the xdm
error log (usually /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/error-something, as I
recall) and see if it's reporting anything strange.  Take a look at
the X-related stuff listed by `ls -al /tmp.'

It looks to me like the X server inherits its stderr from the Xdm,
which is redirected to a file somewhere.  Oops, on Debian that's
/var/log/xdm-errors.  You might try looking at the results of ls -l
/proc/<X.pid>/fd and see if that rings any bells.

HTH

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