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Re: Odd behavior of Debian 10.7 with MATE desktop

From Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Odd behavior of Debian 10.7 with MATE desktop
Date 2021-02-01 16:50 +0100
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On 02/01/2021 08:47 AM, Gareth Evans wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Feb 2021, at 12:46, Richard Owlett wrote:
>> I have just installed Debian 10.7 to my Lenovo T510 Thinkpad having
>> copied debian-10.7.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso to a flash drive [the machine is
>> intentionally isolated from the internet].
>>
>> When logging in as user, everything appears normal.
>>
>> *HOWEVER* when logged in as "root" the desktop *DOES NOT*:
>>     1. display a folder titled "root's Home"
>>     2. display icons for files in /root/Desktop
>>     3. display icons for file systems mounted when plugging in a flash
>>        drive [although Caja properly shows them to be in /media/root]
>>
>> Any ideas? Is this a known bug?
>> TIA
> 
> I accidentally replied to Richard off-list - below for future ref...

If that was worst mistake I ever made .... <GRIN!>

> 
>> Hi Richard,
>>
>> Comments in the below say it's to prevent sudo/su invocations of caja
>> from taking over the desktop, but icons can be made to appear with with
>>
>> caja --force-desktop
>>
>> https://github.com/mate-desktop/caja/issues/871
>>
>> Some problems were caused with menus/dialogs though, as discussed in the link.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Gareth

Thanks for the link.
As I categorically avoid *ANY* use of "sudo", I'll have to experiment to 
see if the recommended use of "caja --force-desktop" might cause me grief.

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Odd behavior of Debian 10.7 with MATE desktop Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-02-01 13:50 +0100
  Re: Odd behavior of Debian 10.7 with MATE desktop "Gareth Evans" <donotspam@fastmail.fm> - 2021-02-01 15:50 +0100
    Re: Odd behavior of Debian 10.7 with MATE desktop Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-02-01 16:50 +0100
      Re: Odd behavior of Debian 10.7 with MATE desktop songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-02-01 21:50 +0100
        Re: Odd behavior of Debian 10.7 with MATE desktop Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-02-02 01:30 +0100
  Re: Odd behavior of Debian 10.7 with MATE desktop David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-02-02 02:40 +0100

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