.Xauthority issue

Mauro mrsanna1 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 3 11:22:34 UTC 2013


yes


On 3 October 2013 13:17, Paul Cartwright <pbcartwright at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 10/02/2013 02:28 PM, Marc Deslauriers wrote:
> >> But what about all the other .Xauthority-like files also in my home
> directory
> >> > with names like .Xauthority.0GWM1W, .Xauthoirity.0TJG2W, etc. What
> are they
> >> > and can I safely delete them?
> >> >
> > You can delete them. Previous versions of lightdm incorrectly created
> backups,
> > but shouldn't anymore.
> >
> > Marc.
>
> so I looked an I find these:
> -rw-------  1 pbc  pbc     114 Oct  1 09:34 .Xauthority
> -rw-rw-r--  1 pbc  pbc       0 Jul 14 13:55 .Xauthority.2EQE0W
> -rw-rw-r--  1 pbc  pbc       0 Jul 12 08:30 .Xauthority.7LQIZW
> -rw-rw-r--  1 pbc  pbc       0 Aug 16 06:20 .Xauthority.I9EX1W
>
> I take it I can remove the .Xauth*W files?
>
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