Package: i3-wm
Version: 4.19.1-1
Severity: minor
According to i3 manual it has debugging disabled by default:
> --shmlog-size <limit> Limits the size of the i3 SHM log to
<limit> bytes. Setting this to 0 disables SHM logging entirely. The
default is 0 bytes.
Also, as I can see, debug and non-debug versions have different xsession
files:
>> grep ^Exec /usr/share/xsessions/i3*
> /usr/share/xsessions/i3.desktop:Exec=i3
> /usr/share/xsessions/i3-with-shmlog.desktop:Exec=i3-with-shmlog
However, i3-with-shmlog is an alias to i3, so both xsession files refers
to the same executable file with the same parameters:
>> ls -l $(which i3-with-shmlog)
>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 2 Feb 7 2021 /usr/bin/i3-with-shmlog -> i3
/dev/shm/i3-logs-${pid} file is present after every launch, so the
debugging is enabled by default.
I think it is better to disable debugging by default, remote the
symbolic link and use "--shmlog-size" option in "Exec" field for
i3-with-shmlog.desktop
I am using debian 11 with all the latest updates, no packages from
unofficial or testing repositories
