typically happens when you’ve switched users via su or sudo rather than logging in directly,

1. I wish typical scenarios were the only ones we had – it’d be a trivial solution.
2. This is a largely unmolested install because I don’t want to be debugging my desktop. If I had a point other than whingeing, here, that would be it: when the default, vanilla, least-tuned setup falls over on the regular, then it’s fundamentally a failure at its “you had one job” task.