Applications can only write to home directory...[SOLVED]

...if logged in as root
I'm sure that this topic has be covered before, but I just cant find anything.
When I'm logged in as root, all applications work fine but when I'm logged in as myself most applications moan about not being able to create a directory.
For example if I start Geany, it complains:
Configuration directory could not be created (Permission denied).
There could be some problems using Geany without a configuration directory.
Start Geany anyway?
Epiphany had the same issue so I manually created the .epiphany directory/folder that it wanted to write to.
I'm sure its a permissions issue, but i can set my home dir to chmod -R 777 ... and the applications still complain
> groups gary
root wheel network video audio floppy storage users
I added myself to the root group, still no joy.
What do I need to do? Is there some group that I need to add to the user?
Many thanks in advance,
gazza
Last edited by gazza (2009-12-01 16:33:28)

thanks everyone.
I had a play and changed the owner to root and then back to <user> (using chown -R <name>) .
Started geany no complaints, started ooffice no complaints
problem solved.
BTW I was refering to ~ rather than /home
I must have caused the problem by renaming/ creating directorys while acting as root.
Last edited by gazza (2009-12-01 16:02:05)

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