Re: What are these folders in home?
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 10:56:11PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: On 04/04/2008, Celejar [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. A signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: What are these folders in home?
On 07/04/2008, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 10:56:11PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: On 04/04/2008, Celejar [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
Re: What are these folders in home?
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:08:47 +0300 Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 08:50:01AM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: paragasu wrote: AFAIK, you can delete all files in $HOME directory. especially the hidden files. the worst you will get is you lost some setting of the program. But you can login just fine. One has to be careful. For example, Kmail (from KDE) uses .kde to store all the mail. If some one deletes the .kde directory thinking that it is just a bunch of rc files they would be in for a nice surprise. Same goes for .sylpheed .sylpheed-claws and probably other mail clients. My Sylpheed (currently 2.5.0beta1 on Sid, but I believe it's been like this for a while) stores mail by default in ~/Mail, not under ~/.sylpheed*, although there is some important stuff in the latter location(s), most notably the addressbooks. Regards, Andrei Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What are these folders in home?
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:34:26 +0200 Dotan Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 31/03/2008, paragasu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AFAIK, you can delete all files in $HOME directory. especially the hidden files. the worst you will get is you lost some setting of the program. But you can login just fine. That's what I figured, but: be careful. ;) That's why I ask! 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 :). Dotan Cohen Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What are these folders in home?
On 04/04/2008, Celejar [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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/ ~/.wapi/ (from gooling this seems to be a Mac folder?!?) ~/.crash_report_checksum ~/.crash_report_frames ~/.crash_report_preview ~/.dmrc (something to do with Compiz?) ~/.esd_auth (it seems to be binary) ~/.ICEauthority ~/.msoprc Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
Re: What are these folders in home?
Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 08:50:01AM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: paragasu wrote: AFAIK, you can delete all files in $HOME directory. especially the hidden files. the worst you will get is you lost some setting of the program. But you can login just fine. One has to be careful. For example, Kmail (from KDE) uses .kde to store all the mail. If some one deletes the .kde directory thinking that it is just a bunch of rc files they would be in for a nice surprise. Same goes for .sylpheed .sylpheed-claws and probably other mail clients. .claws-mail (what it is called in testing) actually only contains the news messages and configuration files since it's possible to save your real emails somewhere else. Therefore, I wouldn't say that the same goes for Claws-Mail, too. Greetings, Claudius -- Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 224491597 ,= ,-_-. =. Google:[EMAIL PROTECTED] SIP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] `-'(. .)`-' Yahoo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] HTTP: http://www.chubig.net \_/ GNU -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What are these folders in home?
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 06:37:25AM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 06:35:41PM +1300, Chris Bannister [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 12:45:16PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: ~/.xsession-errors (this one is 98 MB) ... the errors from you\r xsessions...? :P Can it be erased? I've no need to troubleshoot as I'm not experiencing any problems that I know about. Not a good idea to erase log files. Once you have checked that there are no important errors, you can : .xsession-errors (without the quotes) which will empty the file. AFAIK, xsession-errors will be truncated every time you restart your X session. Then whoever has ~/.xsession-errors (this one is 98 MB) seems to have a serious problem. Also the : trick is probably a good habit to get into. -- Chris. == -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What are these folders in home?
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 00:23:16 +0300 Dotan Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Dotan, ~/.mozilla. I could imagine that there are those who use Firefox who might not know what mozilla is. Even worse, Iceweasel stores its stuff in .mozilla/firefox. -- Regards _ / ) The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately apparent It's your life so go your own way Questions And Answers - Sham 69 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: What are these folders in home?
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 06:35:41PM +1300, Chris Bannister [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 12:45:16PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: ~/.xsession-errors (this one is 98 MB) ... the errors from you\r xsessions...? :P Can it be erased? I've no need to troubleshoot as I'm not experiencing any problems that I know about. Not a good idea to erase log files. Once you have checked that there are no important errors, you can : .xsession-errors (without the quotes) which will empty the file. AFAIK, xsession-errors will be truncated every time you restart your X session. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What are these folders in home?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dotan Cohen wrote: I am cleaning our $HOME and I was wondering what these directories and files are: ~/.fullcircle/ (I know it is the mozilla feedback agent. I use Tbird and Firefox. Can I erase this anyway?) ~/.java/ (java is a system-wide app, no? Can I erase this? I use OpenOffice, which I know has a java dependency) personal settings for java ~/.mcop/ ~/.metacity/ ~/.wapi/ ~/.crash_report_checksum ~/.crash_report_frames ~/.crash_report_preview ~/..DCOPserver_feisty-laptop__0 ll of these are the KDE process interaction server ~/..DCOPserver_feisty-laptop_:0 ~/..DCOPserver_feisty-laptop__1 ~/..DCOPserver_feisty-laptop_:1 ~/.dmrc ~/.esf_auth ~/.fishsrv.pl The kde SMBFS frontend ~/.glivrc ~/.ICEauthority ~/.lpoptions ~/.msoprc ~/.odbc.ini database settings ~/.rnd random seed ~/.Xauthority Settings for usermode creation of Xservers ~/.xsession-errors (this one is 98 MB) ... the errors from you\r xsessions...? :P Thanks in advance. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? ... you could probably just google themm.. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH8JTbLeTfO4yBSAcRAt6dAJ9UavQPNxuIFOaBqIC7yuCL5kpaYgCgtOs1 YdZlX1o0IFoP/bWHTOAb7Po= =7j3b -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What are these folders in home?
On Monday 31 March 2008 11:45, Dotan Cohen wrote: On 31/03/2008, Rich Healey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ~/.xsession-errors (this one is 98 MB) ... the errors from you\r xsessions...? :P Can it be erased? I've no need to troubleshoot as I'm not experiencing any problems that I know about. Yes, kde is going to create a new one. But it may be worth to check what's in it before. And may be correct one or two problems. Thierry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What are these folders in home?
On 31/03/2008, Rich Healey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ~/.java/ (java is a system-wide app, no? Can I erase this? I use OpenOffice, which I know has a java dependency) personal settings for java I do not remember ever setting personal settings for java, in fact, I was unaware that any settings could be set. ~/..DCOPserver_feisty-laptop__0 ll of these are the KDE process interaction server Thanks. I figured that they were KDE related because of the term DCOP but I did not realize that there was need of an interactive server. ~/.fishsrv.pl The kde SMBFS frontend Unusual, as I've never used samba ~/.odbc.ini database settings I have no database. At least, no MySQL, Oracle, or other 'database'. Maybe some programs use sqlite, but that shouldn't be related. ~/.rnd random seed Thanks. ~/.Xauthority Settings for usermode creation of Xservers Thanks. ~/.xsession-errors (this one is 98 MB) ... the errors from you\r xsessions...? :P Can it be erased? I've no need to troubleshoot as I'm not experiencing any problems that I know about. ... you could probably just google themm.. Most of the files that aren't listed here I did google, but those that had me confused I asked. I'm more of a lurker than a poster on this list, and I know to STFW before consuming bandwidth. Thanks! Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
Re: What are these folders in home?
AFAIK, you can delete all files in $HOME directory. especially the hidden files. the worst you will get is you lost some setting of the program. But you can login just fine. be careful. ;)
Re: What are these folders in home?
On 31/03/2008, paragasu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AFAIK, you can delete all files in $HOME directory. especially the hidden files. the worst you will get is you lost some setting of the program. But you can login just fine. That's what I figured, but: be careful. ;) That's why I ask! Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
Re: What are these folders in home?
paragasu wrote: AFAIK, you can delete all files in $HOME directory. especially the hidden files. the worst you will get is you lost some setting of the program. But you can login just fine. One has to be careful. For example, Kmail (from KDE) uses .kde to store all the mail. If some one deletes the .kde directory thinking that it is just a bunch of rc files they would be in for a nice surprise. raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What are these folders in home?
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 08:50:01AM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: paragasu wrote: AFAIK, you can delete all files in $HOME directory. especially the hidden files. the worst you will get is you lost some setting of the program. But you can login just fine. One has to be careful. For example, Kmail (from KDE) uses .kde to store all the mail. If some one deletes the .kde directory thinking that it is just a bunch of rc files they would be in for a nice surprise. Same goes for .sylpheed .sylpheed-claws and probably other mail clients. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: What are these folders in home?
On 31/03/2008, Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Same goes for .sylpheed .sylpheed-claws and probably other mail clients. Regards, Andrei Although Thunderbird stores in ~/.thunderbird, Firefox stores in ~/.mozilla. I could imagine that there are those who use Firefox who might not know what mozilla is. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
how to reset desktop env. config? (was: Re: What are these folders in home?)
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: paragasu wrote: AFAIK, you can delete all files in $HOME directory. especially the hidden files. the worst you will get is you lost some setting of the program. But you can login just fine. One has to be careful. For example, Kmail (from KDE) uses .kde to store all the mail. If some one deletes the .kde directory thinking that it is just a bunch of rc files they would be in for a nice surprise. raju I have encountered the soft reset situation many times: I wanted to start over with a particular desktop, KDE or Gnome. I usually do this: 1. log out from the window manager 2. kill all my files in /tmp 3. kill all relevant hidden directories in $HOME/ (e.g. .kde*, .gnome*, .gconf* and such). 4. Log in to the window manager. It starts configuration from scratch. Now, I do not use Kmail, just Thunderbird and mutt. I know where they save their email. And now I learn that kmail saves its data in .kde. I hope a user using Kmail knows this. But then, the question is, what is the right way to start over using a desktop environment above? Is there a soft reset for window managers and desktop env.? thanks, -HS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to reset desktop env. config? (was: Re: What are these folders in home?)
H.S. wrote: But then, the question is, what is the right way to start over using a desktop environment above? Is there a soft reset for window managers and desktop env.? AFAIK, such a soft reset does not exist for KDE 3.5.5 users. It would be cool to have such a thing though. I gave the kmail as an example. The situation is similar even if you are using knode, korganizer etc., You loose the data along with configuration files when the .kde/ is deleted. hth raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What are these folders in home?
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 12:45:16PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: ~/.xsession-errors (this one is 98 MB) ... the errors from you\r xsessions...? :P Can it be erased? I've no need to troubleshoot as I'm not experiencing any problems that I know about. Not a good idea to erase log files. Once you have checked that there are no important errors, you can : .xsession-errors (without the quotes) which will empty the file. -- Chris. == -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
