I should also add that the fix seems to be much more stable if I include a helpful proposed solution from earlier, which is to also include export ICEAUTHORITY="$HOME/.xdgr/.ICEauthority" in .profile.

So in total, I have:

export ICEAUTHORITY="$HOME/.xdgr/.ICEauthority"

XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=~/.xdgr

in ~/.profile

On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 7:45 PM James Leone <linuxcpa@gmail.com> wrote:

I have figured out what to do to resolve the ICEauthority issue.

First make a directory called .xdgr in the home directory and give the owner read, write and execute permissions. None to any other user.

in console
cd ~
mkdir .xdgr
chmod 0700 .xdgr

Second, tell the system that you want the XDG_RUNTIME_DIRECTORY to be in that folder.

Add the following to /home/username/.profile

XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=~/.xdgr

My system is now back to normal and my applications are running great.

It took a long time to get there though.

James Leone