On Thu, 27 Dec 2018 11:08:16 -0500 Gene Heskett gheskett@shentel.net wrote:
On Thursday 27 December 2018 10:40:55 Thierry de Coulon wrote:
Hi all,
I've got a little but nagging problem with Kpersonalizer.
I've setup a Raspberry Pi with Raspbian (the latest Raspbian Stretch works very well on a 3 B+, by the way) and installed TDE from Slavek's repositories. Then I decided to rename the "Pi" user.
Since that, every time I log in I get Kpersonalizer. If I don't run it, I get no icons on the desktop. If I do, some of my previous settings are kept, some are lost (colours, windows decorations).
This certainly is a permission problem and dome file not being written, but where?
Check permissions and ownership on files inside .trinity/share/config , particularly kdeglobals . They should be owner = your user, group = your user, permissions = -rw------- (or -rw-r--r--) for all the normal files.
Root works very well. I could (and possibly will) create a new user, but first I would like to understand what is not going right.
Thierry
The pi installer cannot be defeated. I installed 5 times trying to get the first user to be named me. I gave up, so on my pi, I am pi. The only arm install I've found that lets you name the first user is armbian stretch on an arm64. Its a genuine PITA on a 6 machine home network.
If you're really desperate, Gentoo will allow you to set up a Pi with whatever username you want (actually, whatever everything you want, within the limitations of running on a rather slow ARM SOC). I just set up a minimal install on a Pi3 so that I could use it as a NAS (in conjunction with the hard drive scavenged from my old, deceased NAS), and the only non-root user on the system is not named pi.
The catch, of course, is the need to set up distcc/cross-compiling/arm emulation on a more powerful machine if you don't want to wait forever whenever you install something.
E. Liddell