Where is the /etc/X11/Xsession upstream source?

Question

I tried searching Xorg gitlab but can't find it for now. I would like to suggest this patch to give option of avoiding .xsession-errors completely.

Answer 1

Let's analyze the file origin locally

$ dpkg -S  /etc/X11/Xsession
x11-common: /etc/X11/Xsession

$ apt-cache show x11-common | grep Source | sort -u
Source: xorg

or using packages.ubuntu.com - it says that source package is xorg(see this page).

Semi-appstream is on Debian Salsa - https://salsa.debian.org/xorg-team/xorg/blob/ubuntu/debian/local/Xsession . You can try to send pull request here.

But I can't find this file on Freedesktop Gitlab.

_{About the premise - I think that your patch will never be included upstream, because of great possibilities of .xsession-errors. Developers and users use this file to determine what is wrong. If you want to change this - change it on your own machine.}

Answer 2

The source of the Xsession file is Debian.

The file is located in the Debian/Ubuntu xorg source > debian/local/ folder.

Answer 3

Xorg is the upstream source for the /etc/X11/Xsession file.

If you think that your patch may one or more bugs, check https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/groups/xorg/-/issues to see if those bugs are already being tracked and awaiting your patch.

If you want the patch to get visibility and feedback, try the xorg-devel mailing list. However, I suggest starting with the ubuntu-devel mailing list, which includes many smart engineers and some Xorg devs - they can give you early feedback if your patch is ready for xorg, or needs some kind of work.