For quite a while, I've noticed an accumulation of .serverauth.#### files on entering a Cygwin environment. Since it's been only a minor annoyance, I've dealt with it by running a small script to delete all but the latest instance. Finally, though, I thought I should solve the root problem of why these files were being left over, and started to investigate.
For some reason, I had always assumed they had something to do with running Emacs in server mode, but apparently, they have nothing to do with Emacs, but are a result of not shutting down an X session "cleanly". I suppose that's true enough - I don't start X automatically, and when shutting down, never think to make an explicit shutdown of X. It seems like there should be a way of informing X to clean up on exit, but I'm not sure how. I'm starting X from a shortcut that runs startxwin. -- Will -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
