On Friday 08 March 2019 18:46:47 Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 08 March 2019 21:27:11 William Morder wrote:
> [...]
>
> > You might want to look into that permissions problem. Are you
> > generally able to run programs as root?
>
> Generally, what need root, works as root, so I don't THINK theres an
> ownership problem.
>
> > Somebody else may want to jump
> > in here, as I've never had issues about changing my KDE3 or TDE menus.
> >
> > Is your system is set up for multiple users? That would be a reason to
> > restrict permissions on such items.
> >
> > Bill

>> [quoting:]
>> No, each user should be able to edit his own menu; if he can't, there's a
>> permission problem.

>> Dan Youngquist

I rather thought so, but I don't deal with multiple users; except on rare 
occasions, that is, when I use other people's computers, or public computers. 

>
> No, not real users although I do run some things as their own user just
> for sandboxing.
>
> Interestingly looooooong list of root owned stuff, all dated Juner 17
> 2016, which is the date I installed wheezy IIRC.
>
> gene@coyote:~$ ls -lR |grep root -|wc -l
> 7927
>
> And while I know it only takes 1 to screw it up, 7927 files here in
> my /home/gene directory does sound excessive.
>
> Thanks Bill
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett

We have yet to resolve the issue, although that does sound like a long list. 
Don't thank me too soon. 

Bill