Dougie, I ran the commands you gave me to copy the pi desktop to my wallis user desktop. I then went back and did what you stated earlier I logged out completely logged in from the prompt as wallis startx sudo nano /etc/lightdm/lighttdm.conf This time it said new file and as expected there were no l...

I logged out and then logged in as wallis and when i typed startx, my screen went black for about 10 seconds and then i got the raspberry gui screen with the raspberry in the middle of the screen, but all my icons such as LXTeminal are gone. There are no icons on the screen.

Thanks again.

I went to a terminal window and typed the following: pi@raspberrypi ~ whoami pi pi@raspberrypi ~ su wallis Password: (entered my password) wallis@raspberrypi /home/pi $ whoami wallis wallis@raspberrypi /home/pi $ cd /home/wallis wallis@raspberrypi ~ $ I then opened idle 3 from its GUI icon and opene...

Here is the response from ls -laR /home/wallis drwxr-xr-x 2 wallis wallis 4096 Mar 5 14:45 . drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Feb 12 07:26 .. -rw------- 1 wallis wallis 866 Mar 5 14:08 .bash_history -rw-r--r-- 1 wallis wallis 220 Jan 10 20:13 .bash_logout -rw-r--r-- 1 wallis wallis 3243 Sep 25 1522 .bash...

I tried sudo idle3 and that lets me save the file. I was starting idle3 form the icon on the gui screen before. I am new to linux and the Raspberry pi and I know my issue is a file permissions problem and I will work on this, but in th emeantime I can continue to experiment with my Raspberry pi. I t...

I am using IDLE3 as the editor where I originally created and saved a python file that now gives me the Error 13.

elParaguayo wrote:Can you show the output of:

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ls -l /home/wallis/Blink.py

Here is what was listed
-rw-r--r-- l wallis wallis 210 Feb 12 07:38 /home/wallis/Blink.py

Last week, I created a python file named Blink.py and was able to save it to my directory home/wallis/Blink.py. Now, I can open the file in python, but when I try to save the file, I get the following error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/wallis/Blink.py' I would appreciated any help on what I...