Remco's comment got me thinking. I HAD used a snap package. All
instances of darktable were subsequently removed from this machine. I
reinstalled darktable 3.2.1 using the PPA. Finally, everything is
working right again. My watermarks are working as intended. Thank you,
Remco! :-)
Willy Williams
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On 10/3/20 1:42 PM, Remco Viëtor wrote:
On samedi 3 octobre 2020 19:14:36 CEST Top Rock Photography wrote:
One thing which occurred to me, and I cannot see why this will be so, but I
thought of permissions on your files. Do this….
ls -l ~/.config/darktable/watermarks/*.svg
and you should see something to the effect of
-rw-rw-??- 1 $USER1 $USER2 ??????? MM DD YYYY
/home/$USER1/.config/darktable/watermarks/MyWatermark.svg
First off, $USER1 and $USER2 would normally be the same thing. (If it is
not, that does not mean that something is wrong; just that something is
unusual, and that might be a problem).
Well, on my system (and most, if not all, other linux/unix systems I've seen),
$USER1 is indeed your login name, but $USER2 (group) is *not* the same,
commonly I'd expect a normal user to be a member of group "users".
Second, $USER1 ought to be your Linux login username. (If it is not, then
something is probably wrong).
Finally, depending on what $USER1 and $USER2 are, the lines ought to start
with one of,
-rw-r----- …
-rw-rw---- …
-rw-r--r-- …
-rw-rw-rw- …
The only important part here is the first group of "rw-", the others won't
change anything (in this respect), as darktable is running with the login name
as user.
If it does not, then we may have an idea of where to start.
So tell us what you see when you type the command, and we can possibly go
from there.
(If what you see is one of the four above listed patterns, and
$USER1==$USER2, then I am still stumped, but it may still help to know).
As I said "$USER1==$USER2" would be strange...
for OP:
Something else that *may* play a role (based on some other questions about
access I've seen): are you by any chance using a snap package for version
3.2.1, and a different install method for 3.0.2?
Remco
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