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Old 11-27-2008, 02:38 AM   #1
sulekha
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Question hidden files


Hi all,

can anyone explain me the purpose of the following hidden files which are usually seen in the home directory ?



.Xauthority
.xsession-errors
.recently-used-xbel
.recently-used
.pulse-cookie
.lesshst
.ICEauthority
.gksu.lock
 
Old 11-27-2008, 08:21 AM   #2
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I don't have details, but it's a place for you to start digging.

.Xauthority - X11 forwarding related
.xsession-errors - holds errors caused during the start of X Windows
.recently-used-xbel - not sure, seems to be GIMP related. So probably the GIMP recently opened images
.recently-used - Gnome's recently opened documents (Places >> Recent Documents)
.pulse-cookie - maybe pulseaudio related?
.lesshst - no idea
.ICEauthority - don't know
.gksu.lock - this is a lock file for gksu (Gtk+ frontend to su and sudo)
 
  


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