On Thu, 27 Dec 2018 11:08:16 -0500
Gene Heskett <gheskett@...> wrote:

> On Thursday 27 December 2018 10:40:55 Thierry de Coulon wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've got a little but nagging problem with Kpersonalizer.
> >
> > I've setup a Raspberry Pi with Raspbian (the latest Raspbian Stretch
> > works very well on a 3 B+, by the way) and installed TDE from Slavek's
> > repositories. Then I decided to rename the "Pi" user.
> >
> > Since that, every time I log in I get Kpersonalizer. If I don't run
> > it, I get no icons on the desktop. If I do, some of my previous
> > settings are kept, some are lost (colours, windows decorations).
> >
> > This certainly is a permission problem and dome file not being
> > written, but where?

Check permissions and ownership on files inside .trinity/share/config ,
particularly kdeglobals .  They should be owner = your user,
group = your user, permissions = -rw------- (or -rw-r--r--) for
all the normal files.

> > Root works very well. I could (and possibly will) create a new user,
> > but first I would like to understand what is not going right.
> >
> > Thierry  
> 
> The pi installer cannot be defeated. I installed 5 times trying to get 
> the first user to be named me. I gave up, so on my pi, I am pi. The only 
> arm install I've found that lets you name the first user is armbian 
> stretch on an arm64. Its a genuine PITA on a 6 machine home network.

If you're really desperate, Gentoo will allow you to set up a Pi with whatever
username you want (actually, whatever everything you want, within the limitations
of running on a rather slow ARM SOC).  I just set up a minimal install on a Pi3 
so that I could use it as a NAS (in conjunction with the hard drive scavenged 
from my old, deceased NAS), and the only non-root user on the system is not 
named pi.

The catch, of course, is the need to set up distcc/cross-compiling/arm emulation
on a more powerful machine if you don't want to wait forever whenever you
install something.

E. Liddell