[ale] dangerous - but i did it anyway

[jimpop at yahoo.com (Jim Popovitch)]

Everything in /tmp can be purged between reboots.  Try rebooting and you 
should be fine.  X does store some session stuff there, so simply 
restarting X (CTRL+ALT+BackSpace) might work just as well.

-Jim P.

Roger Hammons wrote:
> While playing with rsync (and just after reading that
> the "--delete" option is dangerous) I wiped out everything 
> in /tmp which, it turned out, contained some files needed 
> by my xserver.
> 
> I have almost everything working again (via xf86config)
> EXCEPT most or all windows appear physically larger than 
> before and some are physically larger than my screen.  This 
> is most apparent and frustrating when the window won't allow 
> resizeing by moving the edges or corners - as with solitaire 
> (patience).  (Solitaire is just an example - and among the
> least of my worries.)
> 
> Any ideas? 
> 
> Roger Hammons
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