Bug#827639: gnome-settings-daemon: wrong owner of /run/user/1000/dconf/user causes X to freeze

[Andreas Krueger]

Great!

> The problem is that you are using su to start a X/GNOME application as
> root. su does not clear the environment, so XDG_RUNTIME_DIR points to
> your users path, and the application running with root privileges
> changes the permissions.
>
> Please stop using su (without -l) or running X apps as root.


Yes, that could have possibly be the reason.

Perhaps I have started an X application from the root terminal. So it
was me myself who caused that bug to appear.

Will try not to do that anymore.

Michael - thank you very much!

Andreas