On Tue, 2021-01-19 at 05:35 +0100, Ralf Mardorf via evolution-list wrote:
> On Tue, 2021-01-19 at 03:59 +0000, Douglas Summers wrote:
> > xfce4-session kept core-dumping, even when I logged in from the CTRL-
> > ALT-F1 console as root!
>
> While it is quite possible to run desktop environment sessions with root
> privileges, it might be, that it is prevented by default settings of a
> distro or a desktop environment. If you should tend to do chaotic things
> with root privileges, you likely suffer from a permissions issue. Maybe
> files required by a user session can't be accessed anymore without root
> privileges. It's easy to run in privilege issues for files such as
> /run/user/*/dconf/user.
>
I think you misread my message. I never login with root using XFCE, only
via sudo or the CTRL-ALT-F1 console (which is what I did) and only because
I was trying to avoid XFCE from crashing while I troubleshot this problem.
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