Turn out to be very old WM configuration files from the ancient history of this "host". When removed and rebooted the problem went away. Whilst the system was a new installation, the inherited user files contained historial data.
On Sat, 26 Jan 2019 10:36:02 +1100 terryc <ter...@woa.com.au> wrote: > I've just assembled a new machine and intalled Devuan Ascii > from devuan_ascii_2.0.0_amd64_dvd-1.iso with update and upgrade from > pkgmanager. > > The desktop is XFCE4 and the first installation user can create > desktop icons/launchers and have then run/start, but the added second > user can not achieve similar success. > > The icon/launcher can be entered but it fails to launch and > gives a general multipart message of reasons for error, of which the > only relevant part is something about "policy". > _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng