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
