Re: What is the purpose of ~/.gnome/.gnome-smproxy* files?

["John P. Verel" <jverel optonline net>]

On my machine the files don't get cleaned up.  I just did a save
session, logged out and back in.  No clean up.

John
On 12/15/01, 12:20:51PM -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> "John P. Verel" <jverel optonline net> writes:
> > What is the purpose of the ~/.gnome/.gnome-smproxy* files?  I found if I
> > delete them all, that gnome does not startup properly at next
> > reboot.
> 
> Those files are used to save session information for applications that
> don't support session management. If you remove gnome-smproxy from the
> session using session-properties then they won't be created.
> 
> > However, they accumulate.  One could get hundreds of these littering
> > up the place.  So, a cleanup strategy would make sense.
> 
> They are supposed to get cleaned when you save your session again
> (saving new session state deletes the old session state).
> 
> Havoc

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