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Originally Posted by OperationNT View Post
Another thing, before I create an icon, I always check if the game can run through a terminal execution (often in root). But with Angry BIrds, it's a bad idea : it creates "settings.lua" and "highscores.lua" files with unappropriate permissions for non-root user and it makes that the game can't start anymore for a non-root user (it is always possible to fix this issue by a "chmod" command).
You know I usually suggest not running the games as root...
(Not only because of what you experienced, but the PDL library usually assumes it is run as user, and the functions this library calls assume you're running as user, etc. etc. I don't really would like to debug a system that's been exposed to that for weeks (already seen weird things like /home/user being owned by root or the like).
 

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