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pawels64

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Registered: 2009-04-07

Posts: 55

Icons in desktop folder belongs to root not to user

Hi,

When I drag and drop icons from K menu to Desktop Folder they belong to root not to user as espected. I can't rename them etc. When moving cursor changes its apperance to black. I'm in such groups:

dbus hal audio optical storage [user]

Is it case of policy or something else?

darthaxul

Member

Registered: 2008-09-24

Posts: 156

Re: Icons in desktop folder belongs to root not to user

Have the root user enter these commands fro whatever ur username is...
chown -R (your username) /home/(your username)
chgrp -R (your username) /home/(your username)

pawels64

Member

Registered: 2009-04-07

Posts: 55

Re: Icons in desktop folder belongs to root not to user

Have the root user enter these commands fro whatever ur username is...
chown -R (your username) /home/(your username)
chgrp -R (your username) /home/(your username)

Thanks, but is there some way to make it automatically? As I'm making shortcuts not being root user they shouldn't belong to root.

robmaloy

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From: Germany

Registered: 2008-05-14

Posts: 263

Re: Icons in desktop folder belongs to root not to user

Have the root user enter these commands fro whatever ur username is...
chown -R (your username) /home/(your username)
chgrp -R (your username) /home/(your username)

Thanks, but is there some way to make it automatically? As I'm making shortcuts not being root user they shouldn't belong to root.

chown -R user:group   

check if its a known bug. if not, report it!

Last edited by robmaloy (2009-04-17 21:07:11)

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