.ICEauthority - Not on my system

[Snowhog]

I've read many posts that ultimately lead to the renaming/removal of the .ICEauthority file in the users home directory. I do not have this file on my system. I do have the .Xauthority file. I found an old email via Google that answered the question "Can anyone tell me what the $HOME/.ICEauthority file is used for ?" The answer given was "X authorization records are stored and removed removed from the
~/.ICEauthority file

When you start an X session a new record is appended to it. If you have
a crash, stale records can hang around ie authorization records are not
removed, and if you restart a new session, there could be a chance that
you would use the same socket id and be denied access"

Is this still the case? If it is, any reason that I don't have this file on my system? Just curious.

[bobcollard]

Re: .ICEauthority - Not on my system

I don't know Snowhog. It's in my home directory and according to Kate it's empty.

[Snowhog]

Re: .ICEauthority - Not on my system

Well, as of 2010-02-04, .ICEauthority now exists. No idea why it wasn't there before.