greets!
Installed trinity r14.0.3 via exegnu on a Lenovo Thinkpad t450s which had Windows 7 (self-installed) before installing exegnu.
each time I boot linux via grub2 I get the 'personalizer' and have to re-do my desktop settings.
I assume a permissions problem somewhere. I don't know. where should I look?
f.
Am Samstag, 15. Oktober 2016 schrieb Felmon Davis:
greets!
Installed trinity r14.0.3 via exegnu on a Lenovo Thinkpad t450s which had Windows 7 (self-installed) before installing exegnu.
each time I boot linux via grub2 I get the 'personalizer' and have to re-do my desktop settings.
I assume a permissions problem somewhere. I don't know. where should I look?
f.
$ chown <username>:<usergroup> /home/<username> -R $ rm -Rf /home/<username>/.trinity
and reboot.
On Sat, 15 Oct 2016, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Am Samstag, 15. Oktober 2016 schrieb Felmon Davis:
greets!
Installed trinity r14.0.3 via exegnu on a Lenovo Thinkpad t450s which had Windows 7 (self-installed) before installing exegnu.
each time I boot linux via grub2 I get the 'personalizer' and have to re-do my desktop settings.
I assume a permissions problem somewhere. I don't know. where should I look?
f.
$ chown <username>:<usergroup> /home/<username> -R $ rm -Rf /home/<username>/.trinity
and reboot.
turned out being rather strong 'medicine' as (I think) it removed some of exegnu's stylizings but fine. I saved the .trinity directory if I want to restore and explore.
but the 'desktopwizard' (or whatever it is called) problem is gone.
danke.
f.
Felmon Davis composed on 2016-10-15 03:28 (UTC-0400):
Installed trinity r14.0.3 via exegnu on a Lenovo Thinkpad t450s which had Windows 7 (self-installed) before installing exegnu.
each time I boot linux via grub2 I get the 'personalizer' and have to re-do my desktop settings.
Which Linux distro?
Such trouble can result from misusing su (or sudo?).
I assume a permissions problem somewhere. I don't know. where should I look?
Look throughout your homedir. Open any file manager that displays ownership of listed objects (e.g. mc in long listing mode, which is what I would be using), and it should quickly become apparent if any are owned by some other user or by root. If none are misowned in your home's root, then start with ~/.trinity, ~/.local and ~/.config in your search traversing the depths of your home. If it's a new installation, it could be easier to login as root and delete the entire content of your homedir, then copy the content of /etc/skel/ to your homedir and change owner/group appropriately by root to your username/groupname: 'chown -R username.groupname /home/username/'. Or you could start with the recursive chown if you don't care where the problem actually lies but only want it fixed.
On Sat, 15 Oct 2016, Felix Miata wrote:
Felmon Davis composed on 2016-10-15 03:28 (UTC-0400):
Installed trinity r14.0.3 via exegnu on a Lenovo Thinkpad t450s which had Windows 7 (self-installed) before installing exegnu.
each time I boot linux via grub2 I get the 'personalizer' and have to re-do my desktop settings.
Which Linux distro?
using debian (exegnu version).
Such trouble can result from misusing su (or sudo?).
sudo is not set up. I've not had time for much customizing, was just trying to make the desktop 'standard' (for my taste).
I assume a permissions problem somewhere. I don't know. where should I look?
Look throughout your homedir. Open any file manager that displays ownership of listed objects (e.g. mc in long listing mode, which is what I would be using), and it should quickly become apparent if any are owned by some other user or by root.
I followed Dr. Klepp's advice before reading your post; below you recommend pretty much the same remedy as an option.
I think I'll restore the original .trinity and have a look. I did
ls -Rahl /home/davisf
but it doesn't recurse very far. I'll try mc.
thank you for further tips.
f.
If none are misowned in your home's root, then start with ~/.trinity, ~/.local and ~/.config in your search traversing the depths of your home. If it's a new installation, it could be easier to login as root and delete the entire content of your homedir, then copy the content of /etc/skel/ to your homedir and change owner/group appropriately by root to your username/groupname: 'chown -R username.groupname /home/username/'. Or you could start with the recursive chown if you don't care where the problem actually lies but only want it fixed.
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