Nope, don't know where they come from either. According to "dpkg -S" nothing 'owns' those files, only the directory '/var/lib/gconf/'.
*shrug*. I suppose I could delete everything in that directory and see what breaks or gets recreated. -- gconf is storing both compressed and uncompressed trees on disk https://launchpad.net/bugs/73747 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs