Re: What are these folders in home?
On 07/04/2008, Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 10:56:11PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > On 04/04/2008, Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Just move all the $HOME stuff out of the way, and see what happens. If
> > > you see that something important is gone, file movement is
> > > reversible :).
> >
> > Important stuff like .kde I knew not to touch, but the ones that I did
> > not know about I asked here. Simply erasing things was not my only
> > intention, I also wanted to learn more about the system, so I probably
> > should have stated that.
> >
> > I still don't know what these are, if someone can enlighten me:
> >
> > ~/.mcop/
>
>
> That's a kde thing. I think it has to do with interprocess
> communication and control, where you can control running kde apps from
> a command line. not sure though.
>
>
> > ~/.wapi/ (from gooling this seems to be a Mac folder?!?)
>
>
> looks like it might be a mono thing.
>
>
> > ~/.crash_report_checksum
> > ~/.crash_report_frames
> > ~/.crash_report_preview
>
>
> don't know *3
>
>
> > ~/.dmrc (something to do with Compiz?)
>
>
> has to do with desktop managers in general. Your *dm should create it
> when you select a default session.
>
>
>
> > ~/.esd_auth (it seems to be binary)
>
>
> enlightened sound daemon. do you run esd?
>
>
> > ~/.ICEauthority
>
> X Inter-Client-Exchange library authority file.
>
> > ~/.msoprc
>
> the only reference to msoprc I find points to this thread ;)
>
> It's obviously the rc file for some program...
>
> I found most of these in just a few minutes of googling... But I
> know that's often a matter of hitting just the right combinations.
>
Thanks. I assure you that I also did quite a bit of googling before
posting, that's why there were ~20 items and not ~80 items! But yes,
sometimes adding another keyword here or there makes all the
difference in the world. I've also learned to use google.com/linux?q=
instead of google.com/search?q= as the former filters out all
non-linux pages.
I will put up a page describing all the different files and folders
for the next archive digger.
Dotan Cohen
http://what-is-what.com
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
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