On Friday 08 March 2019 18:46:47 Gene Heskett wrote:
On Friday 08 March 2019 21:27:11 William Morder wrote: [...]
You might want to look into that permissions problem. Are you generally able to run programs as root?
Generally, what need root, works as root, so I don't THINK theres an ownership problem.
Somebody else may want to jump in here, as I've never had issues about changing my KDE3 or TDE menus.
Is your system is set up for multiple users? That would be a reason to restrict permissions on such items.
Bill
[quoting:] No, each user should be able to edit his own menu; if he can't, there's a permission problem.
Dan Youngquist
I rather thought so, but I don't deal with multiple users; except on rare occasions, that is, when I use other people's computers, or public computers.
No, not real users although I do run some things as their own user just for sandboxing.
Interestingly looooooong list of root owned stuff, all dated Juner 17 2016, which is the date I installed wheezy IIRC.
gene@coyote:~$ ls -lR |grep root -|wc -l 7927
And while I know it only takes 1 to screw it up, 7927 files here in my /home/gene directory does sound excessive.
Thanks Bill
Cheers, Gene Heskett
We have yet to resolve the issue, although that does sound like a long list. Don't thank me too soon.
Bill