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	2021-02-02 01:30 +0100
Message-ID	<BDRJU-5oP-17@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
References	<BDGOt-7aU-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <BDIGC-8jg-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <BDJCF-pX-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <BDOiZ-3fF-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
Organization	linux.* mail to news gateway

Show all headers | View raw

On 02/01/2021 02:37 PM, songbird wrote:
> Richard Owlett wrote:
> ...
>> 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.
> 
>    i was wondering if the difference could also be as the
> root user may be set up without the adduser command vs.
> the user you are logging in with.

My gut says no. The only user creation takes place during the install of 
Debian.


> 
>    however this is all a guess.  :)
> 
>    man adduser should tell you more details if this is
> at all a part of what you are seeing.
> 
>    sorry, no time at the moment to go read up on mate
> bugs.
> 
> 
>    songbird
> 
> 
>

Thread

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

csiph-web