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Hiperi0n

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Registered: 2008-06-17

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Xfce not saving settings [solved]

Hello. I am having some trouble with xfce in my eee. I installed it on a fresh archlinux install following the wiki guidelines. However, when I run startxfce4 as a normal user, when logging out some permission dennied messages prompt. Iit says:

(xfce4-session:2470): libxfce4util-CRITICAL **: Unable to create base directory /root/.config/xfce4-session. Saving to file /root/.config/xfce4-session/xfce4-session.rc is likely to fail.

(xfce4-session:2470): libxfce4util-CRITICAL **: Unable to open file /root/.config/xfce4-session/xfce4-session.rc.2470.tmp for writing: permission denied

(xfce4-session:2470): libxfce4util-CRITICAL **: Unable to open file /root/.config/xfce4-session/xfce4-session.rc.2470.tmp for writing: permission denied

** (xfwm4:2475): WARNING **: Unable to create session dir /root/.cache/sessions: Error creating directory '/root/.cache/sessions': Permission denied

(xfdesktop:2481): libxfcegui4-WARNING **: ICE I/O Error

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Well, it seems to me that xfce is trying to save the configuration to some files located in /root, the superuser home directory. However, I have ran xfce as a normal user. Shouldn't it be saving the config to my /home folder instead? It looks like it is configured root to be the owner of xfce, if you get my point...

Thanks

Last edited by Hiperi0n (2008-10-30 16:59:01)

mrunion

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From: Jonesborough, TN

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Re: Xfce not saving settings [solved]

Are you sure when you followed the wiki you didn't run the /usr/lib/xfce/thunar... step as root? It mentioned running it as a user and not root.  It's worth a check.

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Hiperi0n

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Registered: 2008-06-17

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Re: Xfce not saving settings [solved]

Thanks, I forgot to copy xinitrc to my ~/.config/xfce4