No permissions on home folder?

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 11:41:41 +0200, Gerald Stermsek wrote:

> Shortly after  installation of FC2 the symbols on my desktop for 
> computer, my home and trash changed.
> They have a pencil behind a prohibition sign in their upper right corner.
> See also: http://nm.wu-wien.ac.at/nonsens/screenshot.jpg
> 
> When clicking properties on my home folder the tab permissions says:
> "You are not the owner, so you can't change these permissions"
> But I can access all the items in these folders and change permissions.
> 
> chown gerald:gerald -R gerald/
> and chmod 750 -R gerald/
> 
> have not changed anything.
> 
> My question: Is this a bug or is something wrong with my system?

More details needed. E.g. show/verify the ownership of the files
in the $HOME/Desktop directory.
 
Btw, 'chmod 750 -R gerald/' makes all _files executable_ which I doubt is
not what you want.