Understanding files in /home/user

[John L Fjellstad]

"Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen at gmail.com> writes:

> Hey all, I see quite a few files/ folders that I don't understand what
> they are when I do "ls -a". Could someone explain to me what these
> are:

> .subversion

subversion configuration directory

> .bashrc

according to BASH manual:
      ~/.bashrc
              The individual per-interactive-shell startup file

> .config
> .local

freedesktop configuration locations. Used by both GNOME and KDE

> .metacity

Looks like metacity configuration file.  I think GNOME uses metacity as
WM.

> .Xauthority

Used by Xserver

> .gconf
> .gconfd

I believe used by GNOME for their local registry

> .xsession-errors

output of X server.  Don't need to back it up.

> .gnupg

Contains your public and private GPG keys

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