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I run Plasma 5 on Ubuntu 18, and when i try to edit some settings on System Preferences like adding apps on system start or installing a theme,it doesnt work. A warning message appears saying: "Access Denied, cannot write on /home/my_user/.config/autostart/app_name.desktop"

Its something about permissions for sure,i dont know how to fix it and I dont think running System Preferences as root its a good solution.

The output of ls -ld ~/.config/autostart is: rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 abr 16 01:50 /home/user_name/.config/autostart and command ls -l ~/.config/autostart/app_name.desktop says that the file doesn't exit (i cannot copy manually in this directory unless i'm root).

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  • what does this ls -ld ~/.config/autostart command return and how about ls -l ~/.config/autostart/app_name.desktop? Please edit your question to include this information.
    – Bruni
    Commented Apr 16, 2019 at 7:33

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Reset to default
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Owner of files and folders in ~/.config should be user, not root.

To fix, run this:

sudo chown -R $USER: ~/.config
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  • Just fixed. I didn't know what type of permissions this folder needed.
    – Adritek
    Commented Apr 16, 2019 at 12:15

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