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rataoslc

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Registered: 2014-10-30

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[Solved] trouble creating launchers on desktop

hello! i'm using xfce on debian wheezy. drag and drop was working fine, but now it says i don't have permission to do it. i still can move files or create launchers to the desktop by running thunar as root, but i want to drag and drop them like i used to do before! any ideas?

rataoslc

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Registered: 2014-10-30

Posts: 4

Re: [Solved] trouble creating launchers on desktop

i can't even save downloaded files to the desktop...

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,494

Re: [Solved] trouble creating launchers on desktop

Check the permissions of your Desktop folder ($HOME/Desktop) and make sure you own them.

$ ls -l $HOME | grep Desktop
drwxr-xr-x  2 toz users   4096 Sep 28 20:55 Desktop

If not:

sudo chown USERNAME $HOME/Desktop

...where USERNAME is your username.

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rataoslc

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Registered: 2014-10-30

Posts: 4

Re: [Solved] trouble creating launchers on desktop

thanks for that! i had tried to change the Desktop permission but without success.