Google Earth

[Nils Kassube]

Karl Larsen wrote:
>     Yes the starter program on Desktop came out owned by root. It had a
> padlock showing. I thought for some time how to fix that and then it
> hit me! In a terminal I wrote $ sudo chown karl
> /home/karl/Desktop/Googleearth and bam! It changed into a round Earth
> looking thing. Alas it doesn't work :-)

Maybe some other files aren't writeable? Try

sudo chown -R $USER: $HOME


Nils