GNOME leaves a lot of useless files
I have been cleaning my ~/ and noticed a lot of files in ~/.metacity/sessions/ and ~/.config/metacity/sessions/ (800+) and in ~/.nautilus/ (600+).
Nautilus and Metacity are to blame for these behaviours. Bugs have already been reported in the Debian BTS and in the upstream bugzilla.
I hope this will be fixed shortly.
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[...] It has been pointed out that session management in Metacity is currently a bit broken. Firstly, it leaves a lot of useless files around. I assume that the only session file which is really necessary is the most recent one. Secondly, I recently found and fixed a bug where Metacity actually crashed when attempting to save a session. I wonder nobody had found it before, but maybe this shows that session management doesn’t get used, or at least looked at, very much. Thirdly, there’s still a bug in the session management that I found the other day while fixing Zenity support, wherein it tries to put up a dialogue before closing the session… and then always quits, so you can’t see what you were told. [...]
I have this problem too. An easy way to solve this problem is to make the folders read only with chmod.
(Note that it may disable some feature I never use, so beware.)