[GNC] Cannot change preferences

[Colin Law]

On Mon, 20 Aug 2018 at 23:20, Ken Heard <kenslists at teksavvy.com> wrote:
> ...
> > ps -aux|grep dconf
> > show?  I suspect it will show that dconf-service is not running.
>
> It returns the line
>
> "ken  5074  0.0  0.0  14004   964 pts/2    S+   17:45   0:00 grep dconf"

So dconf-service is not running.

> "sudo cat /var/log/syslog|grep dconf" returns nothing.

That is a pity, I had hoped for a useful error message

>
> > and
> > ls -al ~/|grep \\.config
> > to check the ownership and settings on .config
>
> I am not sure what you are looking for with this command, but it simply
> returns the following line:
> "4.0K drwx------  9 ken  users 4.0K Jul 22 11:17 .config/"

That shows the permissions on the folder are ok.

Colin