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Doing something else I stumbled on the fix for my problem. I guess I never noticed the very helpful user settings panel. Everything is fine. Thanks again for your help.

One last question: When I turn on the laptop it always opens to the old user, not the new user. How do I set it so that it opens always to the new? I still want to keep the old around because I still have programs there that I need to use for the time being.

Thanks a lot for keeping up with the advice. Much appreciated. I decided to do just that: Move all of my files to asterisktom. There were a few photos that were denied so I just screenshotted them and transferred them. The only problem now is the applications. Tricky business, I think. I could just ...

I spoke too soon. On my old user the X cursor is there when I click below the Firefox window, but is normal otherwise.

In my new user session (asterisktom) I still do not have permissions to save any work on my photos from the old user files. Is this where chmod comes in? I am afraid of screwing ...

OK, I did it. Interestingly that the X cursor is gone. I now have the normal cursor. Windows still won't move.

Writing this from the first user. I will switch back now and check how permissions go.

I do appreciate your help. As soon as I get back from errands I will follow up here.

Edit: I just now saw your comment above. I will try that.

Here is the output from my new user (asterisktom):

asterisktom@thinkPad:~/Desktop
$ ll ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml
total 96K
-rw-r--r-- 1 asterisktom asterisktom 153 Feb 23 10:13 accessibility.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 asterisktom ...

I screwed up. See the above note, the edit.

I couldn't do the first thing. Here is the result of the second.

EDIT: I forgot that I was in the old user version (Tom). I need to do this from the new user (asterisktom).

Tom@thinkPad:~
$ ll ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml
total 120K
-rw-r--r-- 1 Tom Tom 153 Mar 18 2022 accessibility ...

I tried but it said 'permission denied'

OK. That worked. Thanks a lot.

I guess now I have to figure out how to access my files and programs from the old me to the new me. It seems that years ago, I think on a Mac, I was able to access the other user's files and maybe even applications by making an icon on the desktop. Can that be done ...