GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 142499
Some desktop icons have a lock on them
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Since I upgraded my well-behaved gnome 2.4.2 to gnome 2.6.1 (official slackware's packages) the "home" icon, the "computer" icon and the "Trash" icon have a little lock on them. Creating a new "system" icon (e.g. creating a link to my samba share) will also have this lock icon on it. Creating a launcher, or any other "non-system" shortcut on my desktop doesn't have the lock. I can perfectly read/write to whatever is inside them, however I don't understand why the little lock icon addon is there. All the "regular" users have these locks on these icons, only the "root" user doesn't. I emailed the Slackware guy about it, but he doesn't have a clue why this is happening, so I thought I file the bug upstream.
Apparently, it happens also on Dropline Gnome (as well as in my case, the Slackware-official version): http://www.dropline.net/forums/viewtopic.php? t=2295 For these users, removing the user from the "root" Group fixes their problem. However, for me, it makes *all* nautilus icons use the generic "empty file" icon. So, this is a permission problem, any ideas what's causing it?
I'm getting the same problem with the experimental GNOME 2.6 Debian packages. This seems possibly related to bug 135088 which also has to do with weird behavior with permissions. This only happens for me on the desktop. viewing in the browser, there is no lock icon. Also if I open the properties dialog from the desktop it says "You are not the owner, so you can't change these permissions." at the bottom. If I open the properties dialog from the browser, I do not get that message. this is the same behavior reported in bug 135088. Even though it says I can't change the permissions, I can.
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 141390 ***