Hi @terzag, This also recently hit me as being strange but I didn’t pursue it at the time.
re: /usr/share/mate-panel/layouts/*user*-tweak.layout
@lah7? Isn’t root owning this file indicating something outside normal security models?
It’s not using it, that’s normal, but updating it without credentials that seems strange.
Just taking a layman’s guess I see dconf-service runs as root. Is it responsible?