Matthias Clasen matthias.clasen@gmail.com 2012 Jana Svarova jana.svarova@gmail.com 2013 Petr Kovar pknbe@volny.cz 2014 What happened to ~/.xsession-errors? Debug session problems Kat

systemd is not a dependency of GNOME: this page should instruct the user to look in the syslog, and then expland that if systemd is running, the logs will be redirected to the journal.

If you want to find more information about a problem in a session or want to fix it, consult the system log, which stores log data for your user session and applications.

The ~/.xsession-errors X session log file has been deprecated and is no longer used.

View session log on systemd-based systems

On systemd-based systems, you can find the session log data in the systemd journal, which stores the data in a binary format. To view the logs, use the journalctl command.

To view your user session logs:

Determine your user ID (uid) by running the following command:

$ id --user 1000

View the journal logs for the user ID determined above:

$ journalctl _UID=1000

For more information on the systemd journal, see the journalctl(1) man page.