Re: Odd behavior of Debian 10.7 with MATE desktop
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...
> 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
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