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#1 2015-04-04 20:18:57
- jake.green11
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- Registered: 2015-01-22
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No desktop icons/right click/drag&drop in cinnamon,as root
Hello everyone. I have this issue. After a system upgrade last october, I could not right click,select any area,or drag&drop any items in desktop(Cinnamon), also there are no icons on it. It looks like desktop is "locked" or something. The odd thing is that when I log in with another user,everything is fine,this happens only when I log in as root.
Any help is very much appreciated.
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#2 2015-04-04 20:47:48
- Trilby
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Re: No desktop icons/right click/drag&drop in cinnamon,as root
this happens only when I log in as root.
That's the problem. Why do you want to run X (especially with a big DE) as root?
"UNIX is simple and coherent" - Dennis Ritchie; "GNU's Not Unix" - Richard Stallman
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#3 2015-04-04 21:22:04
- jake.green11
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Re: No desktop icons/right click/drag&drop in cinnamon,as root
I suppose i like the fact that i can directly do whatever I want in my system,no sudos. I know that this may carry security issues but right now this is not the point. Any non-gnome based DE works like charm(as root too). Also,before that upgrade,cinnamon worked like charm too.So, Is there any way I can achieve running cinnamon as root?
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