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**Snowhog** · Nov 27, 2011, 11:00 AM

Re: Could not save properties. You do not have sufficient access... to own desktop?

What item on the Desktop are you trying to change the icon of?

**Guest** · Nov 27, 2011, 11:04 AM

Re: Could not save properties. You do not have sufficient access... to own desktop?

Originally posted by Snowhog

What item on the Desktop are you trying to change the icon of?

QUIET.desktop

(It's mentioned in the error message.)

Here are the contents of that file, if it matters:

Code:

[Desktop Entry]
Comment[en_US]=RDP to QUIET
Comment=RDP to QUIET
Exec=scripts/startRDP.sh 192.168.1.117 Dave
GenericName[en_US]=
GenericName=
Icon[en_US]=gnome-panel-launcher
Icon=computer
MimeType=
Name[en_US]=QUIET
Name=QUIET
Path=
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
TerminalOptions=
Type=Application
Version=1.0
X-DBUS-ServiceName=
X-DBUS-StartupType=
X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false
X-KDE-Username=

**wwilly** · Oct 24, 2012, 11:40 PM

I have the same problem in Kubuntu 12.04 LTS. Most, so far, are with putting an icon on files like *.desktop -- most require invocation of java, but maybe not all.

**james147** · Oct 25, 2012, 07:38 AM

Is the drive they are located on mounted read only (check the output of mount)? Can you modify the files from command line? Can you modify the files as root?

**wwilly** · Oct 25, 2012, 01:07 PM

The drive is mounted, it is r/w.
The file(s) in question are on my (running/working) Desktop, in a folder/directory called "APPS".
Everything in "APPS" is r/w.
I don't know how to attach an icon to a file from a command line. The failure message comes from the GUI way of attaching.

**luckyone** · Oct 26, 2012, 12:16 AM

In KDE you need to use Dolphin. Right-click on the icon and choose Properties. On the General tab left-click on the icon in the upper left. Choose what icon you want to use.
Remember you will need to 'Unlock Widgets' before doing this. And be sure to 'Lock Widgets' after finished.

And yes you can use (by importing) a different icon graphic is you wish.

**wwilly** · Oct 26, 2012, 01:53 PM

Originally posted by luckyone View Post

In KDE you need to use Dolphin. Right-click on the icon and choose Properties. On the General tab left-click on the icon in the upper left. Choose what icon you want to use.
Remember you will need to 'Unlock Widgets' before doing this. And be sure to 'Lock Widgets' after finished.

And yes you can use (by importing) a different icon graphic is you wish.

Thanks for your interest, luckyone.
Except for the idea about unlock/lock widgets, I've been doing exactly as you describe. But my widgets *are* unlocked to start; and anyway I've tried it both ways. The refusal to work, and the error message, persist.

IMO, the problem is a bug (along with others) in Kubuntu 12.04 LTS. I had no similar problem(s) with "Lucid Lynx" which preceded it, nor the "Meercat" before that - all on the self-same machine.

**Snowhog** · Oct 26, 2012, 02:01 PM

Try launching Dolphin 'as root' and then go with luckyone's suggestion.

Alt+F2 (to launch Kicker) and type: kdesudo dolphin
Type your pwd and Dolphin will be launched as root.

**wwilly** · Oct 26, 2012, 03:15 PM

Originally posted by Snowhog View Post

Try launching Dolphin 'as root' and then go with luckyone's suggestion.

Alt+F2 (to launch Kicker) and type: kdesudo dolphin
Type your pwd and Dolphin will be launched as root.

Alt+F2 opens the small entry window.
Typing " kdesudo dolphin " (w/o the quotes) accepts my entry -- then the window disappears. My password isn't asked-for ; dolphin doesn't launch.

Trying the same thing in a 'normal' terminal generates 6 lines of error messages, but dolphin does start.
Following luckyone's method then generates a dozen and more (varied) error messages; *doesn't* allow me to add an icon to a file -- and fails with the original subject error message.

**luckyone** · Nov 06, 2012, 12:50 AM

Install Krusader. It's a root-mode File Manager. Then use it and follow my directions. Sorry for forgetting to say.

**wwilly** · Nov 06, 2012, 03:23 AM

Thanks luckyone. Did all that. Same error message; icons on the file(s) still can't be/aren't changed: "You do not have sufficient access..."

I've had a slew of "updates" roll in since my last post.
Snowhog's suggestion about how to invoke Dolphin now works (it didn't before). That is, Dolphin now "comes up" and works without complaint. BUT it still doesn't allow changing file icons either. Same error message as above, just like before.

**wwilly** · Nov 22, 2012, 02:40 AM

I've found other ways to accomplish what I want; therefore have lost interest in the general problem.
So from my POV this thread is terminated. I'm not watching it anymore. But FWIW it's not *solved* either.

**claydoh** · Nov 22, 2012, 01:00 PM

I know you said you won't read this, but others may read it and gain assistance or knowledge. Though adding how you accomplished your task would very much be useful information for them as well

WDL, your issue could be completely different from the OP (Dave92f1). I will bet that the file permissions on various files in your Desktop folder were changed somehow. This is quite often caused by running a gui program such as Dolphin or Kate (and others) with sudo instead of ksedudo.

Check the permissions on the file or folder using your file manager to see what they are. They may well show that they are owned by root. If this is the case, it can be fixed fairly easily by either running the file manager with kdesudo, and changing ownership there - you can tell it to do this recursively for any files or folders inside a folder as well.

The commandline method is this:

Code:

sudo chown -Rv your-username:your-username /home/your-username/path-to-folder

The "R" makes the command change things on all files and folders inside the path specified, the "v" will show what was changed or not. The "v" can be left off if you do not want to see that output.

**wwilly** · Nov 24, 2012, 04:41 PM

Thanks for your interest claydoh.
The fact remains that on *my* machine, with *my* distro, NONE of the suggested approaches posted here have worked. A curious thing, that.

What has worked for me - when it worked - was different for each and every file/icon pairing I needed to make.

A few have resisted all my best efforts. For those I gave up and created a new, unique mimetype with a unique icon, then renamed the file in question. The new file-extension never will be used again for any other file. Certainly that's a meat-cleaver approach when a scalpel is called-for. But it will do until, or if, I ever find the scalpel. ...Or Canonical in it's wisdom updates/fixes the distro.

As to helping others: I do when I can. I'm a newbie to Kubuntu 12.04 LTS, but (40+ years experience) NOT to computers and complex OSs. IMO describing each and all the other things I did would be both cumbersome at best and *wouldn't* help anyone else.
My seven-drive five-OS quintuple-boot machine's set-up truly is unique and provides many opportunities for any OS to be unhappy and stub its toe. ...Unless one is very careful, AND has a correctly functioning OS. *My* 12.04 (two installations) isn't one of those, I believe.

What "other things" I've done (that worked for me) likely simply wouldn't apply to others' setups - let alone work for them.