Ubuntu
gedit package

  1. Bug #1315835
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 1315835

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Jason Eisner (jason-cs) wrote :

I am having the same problem on a different system.
I am using Linux Mint 17.1 "Rebecca", MATE Edition (a derivative of Ubuntu 14.04).
In MATE (a Gnome 2 fork), gedit has been renamed to pluma.

Specifically, just starting up
    sudo pluma
makes the ownership of ~/.config/dconf/user immediately change from myusername.myusername to root.root.

This is a horrible bug! When I reboot much later, my user preferences all appear to be toast. No panel, no background, no keyboard remapping ... And it's hardly obvious why or how to fix it. It's very hard to track down that it boils down to permissions on a mysterious, hidden file that I never even touched!

Is this the right place to report the bug? I found this ticket by searching the web for .config/dconf/user permissions.