It's not a mountain out of a molehill. Other than being annoying (and it is. I
believe Linux deserves better cleanup of such stuff at its current maturity
level), it is plainly bad. It is even a kind of DOS vulnerability: all the X
error messages are collected in a file in your home directory, a
I believe that these lines should not be there in the first place if I don't
have a stylus.
> The xorg.conf script is done by a shell script: /usr/bin/dexconf
> in the source: ~/xorg-7.2/debian/x11-common/usr/bin/dexconf
>
> In it, it seems that all card are created with that ServerLayout section:
That much I have figured out myself :).
Still, I think it's a bug that affects many users and it needs to be fixed.
(And it's not that harmless. It is creating a huge file in the user's home
directory, which may cause the drive to fill up.)
Regards,
Alex
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> My machine is Dell Inspiron 9400,
