user permissions problems

[Jimmy Wu]

I have a guest user on my system already that I created a while back
The guest account doesn't have administrator privileges, by which I mean I
have unchecked the "Administer the system" checkbox in its user properties (
System> Administration > Users and Groups menu)

So, I switched to the guest account, and gedit worked (it let me save to the
guest home directory)

Now, my question is, what exactly will renaming the .gnome or .gconf
(sub)directories do?  If those directories are used by the system, won't
that break something if the system is no longer able to find that directory?

Thanks

On 7/13/07, Marnes <mmmaaarrrnnneeesss at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Well,
>
> Try to isolate the problem...
>
> Firstly, create a new user "jimmy2" and try gedit with it.
>
> If works, probably the problem is in .gnome* or .gconf* directories.
> So you can rename or delete these directories (in your original
> account jimmywu), one by time, to try find where is the problem
> (remember to close all running gedit before renaming each directory).
> Or you may do
> "ls -laR .gnome* .gconf* | grep gedit"
> and view each file inside the listed directories to try find some strange
> flag.
>
> If the test with jimmy2 still doesn't work, the problem may be at
> /etc/gnome/ or /etc/gconf/
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 7/13/07, Jimmy Wu <jimmywu013 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > it's already reset
> > (that would make sense because OpenOffice save works normally)
> >
> > On 7/13/07, Marnes < mmmaaarrrnnneeesss at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > execute gconf-editor
> > >
> > > go in:
> > > /
> > >     Desktop
> > >         gnome
> > >             lockdown
> > > and check whether the "disable_save_to_disk" is set or not
> > > if it is set, reset it
> > >
> > >
> > > On 7/13/07, Jimmy Wu < jimmywu013 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > update: reinstalled gedit, and it still won't work
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On 7/12/07, andy baxter
> > <andy at earthsong.free-online.co.uk >
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > Jimmy Wu wrote:
> > > > > > I am working right in the home directory
> > > > > > the permissions, as listed by ls -l /home, for my jimmywu folder
> are
> > > > > > "drwxr-xr-x"
> > > > > > the append  ">>" works
> > > > > >
> > > > > > so the problem must be gedit
> > > > > >
> > > > > In that case, I don't know what else to suggest, except try a
> > different
> > > > > text editor and see if that works until you can work out what's
> wrong
> > > > > with gedit. Scite is quite good IMHO.
> > > > >
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