Permission issues and a few more ?...

[valathor]

First I want to say that I am new to Linux, so I may get confused a bit

Second, I'm having some problems with permission denied popups...
Like I go to drag a, lets say firefox, from the menue to the desktop to create a shortcut and it says that I don't have the permission to do so???
It happens with MANY different things, and it hinders me quite a bit, if somebody could help me with that it would help a lot.

Also, I read the manual, but it was made for Daryna, and is lacking some insight:

In Mintdesktop, what is Gnome composite???

And 1 last thing(for now anyway)

Has anyone in here played T.o.M.E.???
If so, could you tell me how to install it in Mint...

Thanks for being here to help
Please remember that I am quite Linux illiterate, so teach me like I'm a dummy

[Husse]

To give a simple answer first, Compositing is a way to make windows look nicer
http://live.gnome.org/Metacity/Compositing
It seems something is wrong - you should definitely not get a permission denied when you drag an icon from the menu to the desktop
Have you made anything "special" to your Mint?
What do you get if you do

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ls -l /home/your_username/Desktop

[tri]

I am a dummy too, but noone teach me about Linux except myself. So just go for it.

Anyway, I have never fallen in such situation before. Did you make a clean install for Elyssa or just upgraded to it by dist-upgrade? The latter might bring conflict or, in another word, your system has been mixed up between Ubuntu Hardy and Elyssa.

[tri]

Oh, I experienced this problem exactly as you mean when I tried to drag icons from, and just from favorite menu to desktop. If you drag them straight from listed menu, that should be fine then.