On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 11:41:41 +0200, Gerald Stermsek wrote: > Shortly after installation of FC2 the symbols on my desktop for > computer, my home and trash changed. > They have a pencil behind a prohibition sign in their upper right corner. > See also: http://nm.wu-wien.ac.at/nonsens/screenshot.jpg > > When clicking properties on my home folder the tab permissions says: > "You are not the owner, so you can't change these permissions" > But I can access all the items in these folders and change permissions. > > chown gerald:gerald -R gerald/ > and chmod 750 -R gerald/ > > have not changed anything. > > My question: Is this a bug or is something wrong with my system? More details needed. E.g. show/verify the ownership of the files in the $HOME/Desktop directory. Btw, 'chmod 750 -R gerald/' makes all _files executable_ which I doubt is not what you want.