Tom56
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Post by Tom56 on Jan 16, 2021 19:09:34 GMT
Good Day. New user to Bodhi although I have some experience with some other Distros, Mint and Ubuntu, and now this one. I have installed Bodhi on an older laptop and after some tweaking got it up and running. The issue I have is the File Manager doesn't seem correct. I'm used to seeing /home/name/ and then the likes of /Desktop; /Documents, etc. and the /home/name/folder contains the other folders. What I have is /home/bodhi and the other files in that location. My desktop for some reason displays the contents of the home folder. Never seen this before. I should mention that when I first looked into the File Manager all the folders were in the Trash Can. I tried to move to the home folder but that hasn't helped matters. Any thoughts or should I just re-install?
I have Bodhi running on Compaq 110 32 bit version and it runs very well and I am quite pleased.
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Post by Hippytaff on Jan 16, 2021 22:27:02 GMT
That’s very strange behaviour. If it’s a fresh install I’d probably just reinstall. I’ve never had that happen myself.
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wimc
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Post by wimc on Jan 17, 2021 11:27:01 GMT
/home/bodhi is the live version.
Strange that it kept as that. No idea, except what was suggested above.
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Post by ylee on Jan 17, 2021 23:24:40 GMT
It would seem to me Tom56 did not change the user name. In Bodhi 5.1 ubiquity, the installer, auto-fills that field and you have to edit it to what you want. Somehow I have that fixed in the BL 6.0 pre-alpha release. To see open a terminal and run:
echo $USER
Does it return bodhi or bodhi64 and not your user name?
If so you can fix it by creating a new user and give that user sudo powers. Log in as that user and make sure the login works.
Leave or delete the bodhi user.
This is the short version, if you need more detail let us know.
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enigma9o7
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Post by enigma9o7 on Jan 18, 2021 3:46:37 GMT
Any thoughts or should I just re-install? I have some thoughts! As to reinstall, depends on if you really broke it and if you can get it fixed easily or not.... but let's go one sentence at a time!
>Good Day. New user to Bodhi although I have some experience with some other Distros, Mint and Ubuntu, and now this one.
G'day to you, and welcome!
>I have installed Bodhi on an older laptop and after some tweaking got it up and running.
Wow, me too!
>The issue I have is the File Manager doesn't seem correct.
Oh. Bummer. Seems ok to me.
>I'm used to seeing /home/name/ and then the likes of /Desktop; /Documents, etc.
Ok great me too, sounds good so far, Bodhi & Mint and Ubuntu all do that, pretty much every distro I've tried does that... although only one slash... i.e. full path is /home/name/Desktop or /home/name/Documents
>and the /home/name/folder contains the other folders. well, no folder named folder per se.... but yeah Desktop & Documents folders are directly in /home/username folder. >What I have is /home/bodhi and the other files in that location. Me too! We really have a lot in common. But this isn't just coincidence, bodhi is default username if you didn't change it during installation.... >My desktop for some reason displays the contents of the home folder. Ok, maybe not everything in common. This is not bodhi's default behavior and would need to see a screenshot to guess how you might have done that. Usually the desktop starts with nothing on it besides a single shelf and no floating gadgets or desktop icons even loaded. You can add floating gaget or enable "desktop icons" module and then you will see contents of Desktop folder floating on desktop wallpaper, but even if you did that, to get home (or user home or any other) folder directly on desktop you'd most likely have to create a link from Desktop to that other folder; so... > Never seen this before. Me neither! But I'm guessing you probably have the places module on your desktop? Share a screenshot.... if I'm right you can remove from Start --> Settings --> Gadgets --> Background --> Configure Layer --> Places --> Remove Gadget >I should mention that when I first looked into the File Manager all the folders were in the Trash Can. This is where things start getting truly bizarre. All the folders in the whole world are in the trash can? I'm surprised it can boot at all! Screenshot? >I tried to move to the home folder but that hasn't helped matters. Yeah sounds like a bad idea. Where did you try to move the home folder to? Hopefully not the trash can  I suggest put it back in / (root) and keep it named home so full path appears as /home as probably too much stuff expects it to be there, not a great idea to go renaming/moving files/folders that require root password or you can break things... but by default pcmanfm wont let you move that so unless you started pcman with sudo or moved folder with sudo from command line, yer home folder is still where it belongs. |
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Post by majpooper on Jan 18, 2021 16:52:54 GMT
Good Day. New user to Bodhi although I have some experience with some other Distros, Mint and Ubuntu, and now this one. I have installed Bodhi on an older laptop and after some tweaking got it up and running. The issue I have is the File Manager doesn't seem correct. I'm used to seeing /home/name/ and then the likes of /Desktop; /Documents, etc. and the /home/name/folder contains the other folders. What I have is /home/bodhi and the other files in that location. My desktop for some reason displays the contents of the home folder. Never seen this before. I should mention that when I first looked into the File Manager all the folders were in the Trash Can. I tried to move to the home folder but that hasn't helped matters. Any thoughts or should I just re-install?
I have Bodhi running on Compaq 110 32 bit version and it runs very well and I am quite pleased.
Hi Tom,
I have pretty much the same experience as you in that I have been using Mint and Ubuntu for years. I just came to Bodhi a few months ago and have installed it probably 50 or 60 times now in VMs and on a couple of old laptops. Not to mention my personal laptop is running BL6.0 pre-alpha and for a friend who had an Dual core 2 Gib laptop and said "go for it." Anyway I can say for sure is that the Bodhi file system is structured exactly the same as the file system is structured on Mint or Ubuntu - actually like every distro I have looked at - and that is a lot of linux distros.
Now the Moksha desktop - that is a bit, well a lot, different than what you are used to but the learning curve is not very steep. I would just do a fresh install and just chalk it up to a "fat fingering" the install.
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Tom56
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Post by Tom56 on Jan 19, 2021 19:09:13 GMT
Thanks everyone for your comments, greetings et. Well I did a clean install since it was a recent install anyway. I did see that the name was missing and was home/bodhi/etc. I must have somehow missed the name without knowing. In any case I have it correct and the File Manager is as it should be; got the WIFI working again since the adapter wasn't recognized and however now I have an issue with the screen resolution due to SIS Graphics Card. I had it working before whereby I could change to 1024x768 however after the reinstall what I did doesn't seem to be working. In GRUB I amended: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="xforcevesa" and uncommented #GRUB_TERMINAL=console, removing the #. Worked for me before, not now with resolution stuck at 640x480. I have been trying everything I can think of to amend this. It wasn't this difficult the previous time. Anyway I will continue my quest on-line to see if I can find a solution.
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I suggest put it back in / (root) and keep it named home so full path appears as /home as probably too much stuff expects it to be there, not a great idea to go renaming/moving files/folders that require root password or you can break things... but by default pcmanfm wont let you move that so unless you started pcman with sudo or moved folder with sudo from command line, yer home folder is still where it belongs. 