[LightDM] Cache and config files in /var/lib/lightdm

tjoen tjoen at dds.nl
Thu Jul 10 09:53:17 PDT 2014


On 10-07-14 16:04, Robert Heller wrote:
> I just did a find & grep over /var and found two files with my username in 
> them:
>
> /var/lib/lightdm/.cache/unity-greeter/state
> /var/lib/lightdm/.config/dconf/user
>
> Is there any good reason NOT to delete these files? That is, will deleting
> them break lightdm or unity-greeter? I would presume there are sensible
> defaults.
They will be recreated if you delete them.
But to be save: rename  /var/lib/ligtdm/
And recreate /var/lib/ligthtdm/ with same permissions and ownership


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