[Novalug] .dmrc question

[DonJr]

On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 10:21 -0700, Beartooth wrote:
>  	When I log into either my #1 or my #2 F7 machine, I get a 
> popup saying "User's $HOME/.dmrc is being ignored. This prevents 
> the default session and language from being saved. File should be 
> owned by user and have 644 permissions. User's $HOME directory 
> must be owned by user and not writeable by others."
> 
>  	I've tried everything I can think of, including as root 
> doing cd /home and then chown -R btth:btth btth -- but nothing 
> works.
> 
>  	Perhaps as a result, not only is my whole display messed 
> up, and much of barely (or not at all) responsive to mouse 
> commands -- I have no workplace switcher on the gnome panel; and 
> without that I'm all but helpless.
> 
> --
> Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Double Retiree,
> Not Quite Clueless Linux Power User, with precious
> (very precious) little idea where up is.

Try this combo:
\/ as your user 'btth'
$ cd                     ;# change to your home directory
$ chmod 0600 .dmrc     ;# Set access permissions to Read/Write user only
$ chown btth:btth .dmrc  ;# set owner and group to user 'btth' 

And every thing should be happy once again.
As the above combo of commands should fix both any ownership and/or
permissions problems.

When I do:
  $ cd
  $ ls -l .dmrc

I get the following:
 -rw------- 1 djr djr 24 2006-06-15 23:28 .dmrc

{ my local user ID is 'djr' adjust to fit your setup.}

When I then do:
 $ cat .dmrc

I get:
 [Desktop]
 Session=gnome



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