When running under Xfce as 'root', if you attempt to copy and paste a file to the desktop, it will fail with the following nofication: "Failed to activate service 'org.xfce.FileManager': timed out (service_start_timeout=120000ms)." Further, if you attempt to delete a file from the Desktop, it will fail, or if you attempt to rename a file on the Desktop, it will fail. You can move a file around, and you can open a folder or a file successfully, but you can't do anything that involves writing/updating the directory. It is important to note, that if you bring up a Thunar instance, and select the Desktop from the sidepanel, you can successfully perform all of these operations from within the Thunar instance. Happens under Slackware-current and Arch Linux. Under Slackware-current, it happens under 32 and 64 bit versions. Under Slackware-current it showed up when Thunar 1.8.2 was introduced.
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