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- Ed_P
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Have you clicked on any of the ones you selected?
Ed
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YES AND THEY WORK ... BUT USELESS AS THE USER CAN'T SEE THEM UNTIL HE HOVERS OVER THEM...and a normal user would not know that..
Sepp
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this is because the icon theme is not set, which can be done via the cinnamon settings, but see below, there's more to it.
ok, first off, i recommend changing the guest and root passwords (either using passwd or via Porteus Settings Centre>security section)sepp1945 wrote: ↑28 Feb 2024, 06:54WHEN i login with guest(pw=guest) everthing works fine as i setup
BUT when i login with a new user (PW=strong) i get only a blank screen with a "S" in the lower right corner (Menu with all the options) but the exit and logoff greyed out, (can do it when hovering over it)
regarding, user creation, while possible(as you've seen), it's not well supported, which means there's a few thing you'll need to do manually.
the simple stuff is copying some files from the guest account(/home/guest) to your new user account:
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/home/guest/.config/dconf/users ## this contains most of the desktop settings
/home/guest/.bashrc
/home/guest/.bash_profile
/home/guest/.cinnamon/ ##directory and it's contents
/home guest/.local/share/{applications,gvfs-metadata,nemo} ##three directories and their contents
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chown -R <new_user>:users /home/<new_user>
if you do:
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groups guest
to add your user to groups: (as root)
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gpasswd -a <your_user> <group>
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usermod -aG comma,separated,list,of,groups <your_user>
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Thank you
will try today... or is renaming the guest account a better solution?
Sepp
will try today... or is renaming the guest account a better solution?
Sepp
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no, or at least i wouldn't think so
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I can see the menu items in your https://postimg.cc/0MwChJvr picture that aren't being hovered over. .
Ed