error with /run/user/1000/dconf

[Michael D. Setzer II]

In using gedit from command line, I will see these errors?

(gedit:18414): dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create directory 
'/run/user/1000/dconf': Permission denied.  dconf will not work properly.

The directory actually does not exist, but there are other /urn/user directories.

If I ssh into the machine using the user id, then the /run/user/1000 directory 
and subdirectories are created, and then using gedit does not issue the 
errors?

Question:
1. Why isn't the /run/user/1000 directory created with a login (actually 
connected via VNC)
2. Why does an ssh login create it, but not the vnc session?