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

[Mehdi Dogguy]

On  0, Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > 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.
>

I'm not sure about that. Almost all files present in my ~/.metacity/sessions/
are empty. More precisely, they contain only:

<metacity_session id="11xxxxxxxxx">
</metacity_session>

So what's the point of creating empty files?
And I didn't enabled session auto-saving neither.

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