Temp font files in /home/user directory

[Cathal O'Brien]

On 15/11/06, Nigel Henry <cave.dnb at tiscali.fr> wrote:
>
> I'm a bit puzzled by many TMP font files in my /home/user directory. These
> are
> hidden files, and appear to be empty, or almost empty. For example, there
> is
> one file named .fonts.cache-1. This contains 26.8KB of data. Next I
> have .fonts.cache-1.TMP-0mWg8b, which contains 6B, and inside the file is
> a
> number (17031). The next file is .fonts.cache-1.TMP-3wah8b, and contains
> 0B.
> There are 28 of these TMP files on one of my FC2 installs. the only other
> fonts file after all the temp ones, is one named .fonts.conf (110B).
>
> Anyone know why these empty TMP files arn't being deleted when logging out
> or
> shutting down the machine?
>
> Distro: FC2
> KDE version: 3.2.2-14.FC2.legacy Red Hat
> Konqueror version: 3.2.2-8.FC2 Red Hat
>
> Nigel.
>
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I think its to help load times, obviously increase the performance of apps
like The Gimp. Even if you delete these files Im preety sure their replaced
as soon as you open certain applications that use them.

-- 
Cathal O'Brien
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