[NTLUG:Discuss] Can you tell I'm a newbie?

[Greg Edwards]

Wayne,

I don't use Nautilus so I can't speak directly to those.

When you look at your directory "/home/yourname" what are the owner and 
group settings.  From a console window you can enter "ll" or "ls -l" and 
you'll see the owner and group ids.  If they aren't you then this is 
where you'll need to start.

As root enter "cd /home"

Enter "chown -R yourname:yourname yourname", where yourname is the login 
name your using.

This will make you the owner and group of all the files in "/home/yourname".

You can also as root from /home enter "chmod -R u+rw yourname" to insure 
that all files are read/write accessible by the owner, that's you.

Hope this helps.

Wayne Dahl wrote:

> Hello again,
> 


> In the course of trying to fix that problem, I've made things worse with
> my normal user environment.  As I was attempting to find SOME other
> setting I might have missed, I switched from Gnome/sawfish to Gnome/twm
> as the desktop manager and had a heck of a time trying to get back to
> sawfish.  The panel at the bottom of the screen disappeared and so did
> my desktop icons.  When I finally did get back to sawfish, my desktop
> icons were still gone and now I appear to be locked out of making
> changes to the desktop.  I can pull up the Start Here menu from
> Nautilus, but it shows to not have permissions to change/add icons to
> the desktop using drag and drop like I did before.  The other user
> account I have set up for my wife seems to be ok and the root account
> works just fine also, so it's something I've done to my normal user
> account.  The kicker is, I don't remember changing any permissions on
> anything, so I'm at a loss as to how this happened.  I've come to the
> conclusion that the easiest thing to do might be to copy the
> subdirectories under my home account that have to do with mail settings,
> etc, and blow away the account and start over with a new one and restore
> those subdirectories, but before I did that, I thought I'd get your
> input as to how I might fix this without having to go to that extreme. 
> If I have to do that, I have to do that and I'm prepared to do so if
> necessary.  But, if this is something I can fix without having to start
> all over again, I want to learn it.  I don't want to get into the mode
> of thinking that the best way or easiest way to fix something is to
> delete it and start over.
> 
> Again, I thank you in advance for your input.  You people are going to
> get tired of hearing from me, I think!  Just remember, infinite patience
> is a virtue. ;)
> 
> Wayne
> 


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Greg Edwards
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