My Linux Mint workstation is acting funky, it appears to be logging me out randomly, though I'm guessing what's really happening is that the X desktop is crashing. Maybe.

How do I troubleshoot this?

I'm not sure which log file to look at. I tried looking at dmesg and Xorg.log in /var/log but I'm not sure what to look for. Not to mention there are no conventional timestamps, but a string like [ 0.416674] and I have no idea what that means.

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These four files are your best bet.

/var/log/Xorg.0.log /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old ~/.xsession-errors /var/log/messages
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After doing some research, seems like (for whatever reason), any recent X crashes show up in /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old

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