On Sun, 2017-08-06 at 11:09 +0200, Frank wrote: > Op 06-08-17 om 01:34 schreef Dominic Knight: > > I guess this is something I have done at this end but, although it > > works fine as a normal user (right click and open new instance), > > when > > trying to open any folder from Caja as administrator (right click > > on > > folder in Caja, select open as administrator) I get the message: > > > > "Please start Chromium as a normal user. If you need to run as root > > for > > development, re-run with the - no-sandbox flag." > > > > I wasn't aware of trying to run Chromium at all, it used to open a > > separate instance of Caja with su privileges. Anyone else or > > something > > I have done badly somewhere and forgotten about? > > > > Debian Testing(Buster) > > Mate 1.18.0 > > Caja 1.18.3 > > It's possible a mimeapps.list has the wrong entry for > inode/directory. > There are usually two or three copies of this file: > > user's: ~/.config/mimeapps.list > system: /usr/share/applications/mimeapps.list > and possibly: > root's: /root/.config/mimeapps.list > > The location of the user and root list may be different in other > desktop > environments (mine's Xfce 4.12, Debian testing). > > When you run caja as user, your own copy takes precedence. Running > as > root, root's comes first (if it exists). Anything that isn't > specified > there, is looked up in the system list. > > Make sure the inode/directory entry isn't messed up. If the entry in > the > system copy is correct and the wrong one is in root's copy, simply > remove that. > > Regards, > Frank
Hmmm... Seems to have been a temporary glitch, installed the rest of Mate's updates after they came through this morning and now all works as expected. I'll put it down to a partially upgraded DE and move on. My thanks to Frank and Cindy for your replies, Dom
