Bug#443665: Lots of files build up in .metacity/sessions/

[Josselin Mouette]

forwarded 443665 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=412755
thanks

Le dimanche 23 septembre 2007 à 20:50 +1200, Ian McDonald a écrit :
> Package: metacity
> Version: 1:2.20.0-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> I went into ~/.metacity/sessions/ to look at files in there and found
> over 400 files there!
> 
> They all seem to be in the form of 11xxxxxx.ms where x is seemingly
> random numbers.
> 
> These files go back 2 years or so, so it is not a new issue.
> 
> It may be that these are sessions or similar that died - I don't know.
> It's either a bug, or if they are dead sessions I'd like to make a
> feature request to have these tidied on next start.

This is because metacity creates a new file each time the session is
saved. I guess you have enabled session autosaving for so many files to
be generated.

Fixing this is far from easy, because there isn't a way of knowing if a
session is still referenced somewhere.

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