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