On 2024-11-20 12:20, Will McDonald wrote:
On Wed, 20 Nov 2024 at 17:04, Frank Bures <buresf@gmail.com mailto:buresf@gmail.com> wrote:
Just upgraded to F41 from F40. When I try to change properties of a desktop icon (be it VM-manager, Thunderbird, Chrome or any other) the system would not let me to save the changes. because: Could not save properties due to insufficient write access to: ‘/home/fbures/Desktop/virt-manager.desktop’. And indeed the above location is a link to /usr/share/applications/virt-manager.desktop Everything in that directory is owned by root:rootThis has been touched on a few times in previous threads, it's always a good idea to check the archives. (Although the hyperkitty search and browsing seems a little broken currently?!)
This article covers .desktop files fairly comprehensively: https://www.baeldung.com/linux/desktop-entry-files <https:// www.baeldung.com/linux/desktop-entry-files>
Thanks, but this is not what I had in mind.
I was talking about right-clicking an icon on the desktop, clicking Properties and then trying to save the change by clicking OK. That's when the error message is generated.
I believe this should work right-off-the-box, otherwise I do not understand why the Properties item is even in the menu.
Cheers Frank