[xubuntu-users] 16.04 review and and 17.04 install notes

[Victor Forberger]

Giovani,

Avoid running as root. File permissions will be divided between root and
you, especially if you link your dropbox account to other computers or
devices.

To fix the permissions problem:

> Dropbox permissions fix (when running dropbox via sudo)
> 
> sudo dropbox stop
> sudo chown -R USER:GROUP /home/USER/Dropbox
>      EX: sudo chown -R victor:victor /home/victor/Dropbox
> sudo chown -R USER:GROUP /home/USER/.dropbox
> sudo chown -R USER:GROUP /home/USER/.dbus
> dropbox start

- Victor

On 05/05/2017 09:18 AM, Giovani Barbosa wrote:
> Hi. 
> Same here: my Dropbox icon only works when running as root (sudo dropbox
> start -i).
> 
> 
> 2017-05-03 13:11 GMT-03:00 Victor Forberger <vforberger at fastmail.fm
> <mailto:vforberger at fastmail.fm>>:
> 
>     Hi all,
> 
>     A recent review of Xubuntu 16.04 on older hardware is available at
> 
>     http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/eeepc-xerus.html
>     <http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/eeepc-xerus.html>
> 
>     And, I got my lenovo desktop up and running with Xubuntu 17.04. Power
>     management issues from 16.10 and 16.04 are gone. Thanks.
> 
>     But, the system load monitor panel plugin (configured to show a red bar
>     for CPU, green for memory, and yellow for swap) is not displaying
>     correctly (plus, mouse-over no longer supplies readouts of CPU, memory,
>     or swap usage). For a pic of the display problems, see
>     https://linuxatty.wordpress.com/thesetup/
>     <https://linuxatty.wordpress.com/thesetup/>.
> 
>     I am also having trouble with Dropbox not displaying properly (the red ø
>     box in the panel). None of the recommended fixes -- see, e.g.,
>     http://www.webupd8.org/2016/06/fix-dropbox-indicator-icon-and-menu-not.html
>     <http://www.webupd8.org/2016/06/fix-dropbox-indicator-icon-and-menu-not.html>
>     -- work for me.
> 
>     Also, Xubuntu 16.04.2 on my laptop via Parallels is working great.
> 
>     - Victor
> 
>     --
>     Victor Forberger
>     vforberger at fastmail.fm <mailto:vforberger at fastmail.fm>
>     blog: http://linuxatty.wordpress.com
> 
> 
> 



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