On Fri, 9 Sep 2016 17:19:33 +0200, Bennett Piater wrote: >On 09/09/2016 05:17 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> On Fri, 9 Sep 2016 16:11:48 +0200, Bennett Piater wrote: >>> I've had a very elusive and frustrating problem this week and don't >>> know where to look anymore. >> >> Where did you already look? >> >> $ less $HOME/.xsession-errors >> >> ? >I do not have that file. Regarding https://www.google.de/?gws_rd=ssl#q=+linux+no+.xsession-errors https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=143068 http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/where-is-~-xsession-errors-log-867498/ $ startx 2> ~/.xsession-errors should do the job.