GIMP filters throwing permission denied errors

Using GIMP-2.10 on Manjaro KDE. The filters do work but throw this error whenever launched.

Failed to open file “/home/*USERNAME*/.config/GIMP/2.10/filters/GimpGegl-gegl-emboss-config.settings”: open() failed: Permission denied

Also, I cannot access any folder in /home/*USERNAME*/.config/GIMP/2.10/.

What might be the cause?

Edit: The permissions in that directory are:

ls -l
total 740
-rw-r--r-- 1 myuser myuser 2186 Dec 4 19:04 action-history
drw-r--r-- 2 myuser myuser 4096 May 19 2019 backups
drw-r--r-- 2 myuser myuser 4096 May 19 2019 brushes
-rw-r--r-- 1 myuser myuser 178 Dec 4 19:04 colorrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 myuser myuser 300 Dec 4 19:04 contextrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 myuser myuser 1783 Dec 4 19:04 controllerrc
drw-r--r-- 2 myuser myuser 4096 May 19 2019 CrashLog
drw-r--r-- 2 myuser myuser 4096 May 19 2019 curves
-rw-r--r-- 1 myuser myuser 20764 Dec 4 19:04 devicerc
-rw-r--r-- 1 myuser myuser 57 Dec 4 19:04 dockrc
drw-r--r-- 2 myuser myuser 4096 May 19 2019 dynamics
drw-r--r-- 2 myuser myuser 4096 May 19 2019 environ
drw-r--r-- 2 myuser myuser 4096 May 19 2019 filters
drw-r--r-- 2 myuser myuser 4096 May 19 2019 fonts
drw-r--r-- 2 myuser myuser 4096 May 19 2019 fractalexplorer
drw-r--r-- 2 myuser myuser 4096 May 19 2019 gfig
drw-r--r-- 2 myuser myuser 4096 May 19 2019 gflare
-rw-r--r-- 1 myuser myuser 843 Nov 29 19:22 gimprc
drw-r--r-- 2 myuser myuser 4096 May 19 2019 gimpressionist
drw-r--r-- 2 myuser myuser 4096 May 19 2019 gradients
drw-r--r-- 2 myuser myuser 4096 May 19 2019 icons
drw-r--r-- 2 myuser myuser 4096 May 21 2019 internal-data
drw-r--r-- 2 myuser myuser 4096 May 19 2019 interpreters
drw-r--r-- 2 myuser myuser 4096 May 19 2019 levels
-rw-r--r-- 1 myuser myuser 86473 Dec 4 19:04 menurc
drw-r--r-- 2 myuser myuser 4096 May 19 2019 modules
drw-r--r-- 2 myuser myuser 4096 May 19 2019 palettes
-rw-r--r-- 1 myuser myuser 102 Dec 4 19:04 parasiterc
drw-r--r-- 2 myuser myuser 4096 May 19 2019 patterns
-rw-r--r-- 1 myuser myuser 243906 Dec 4 18:27 pluginrc
drw-r--r-- 2 myuser myuser 4096 May 21 2019 plug-ins
-rw-r--r-- 1 myuser myuser 209 Jun 16 17:06 print-page-setup
-rw-r--r-- 1 myuser myuser 581 Jun 16 17:06 print-settings
-rw-r--r-- 1 myuser myuser 62 Nov 3 20:31 profilerc
drw-r--r-- 2 myuser myuser 4096 May 19 2019 scripts
-rw-r--r-- 1 myuser myuser 3551 Dec 4 19:04 sessionrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 myuser myuser 211350 Dec 4 19:04 tags.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 myuser myuser 12205 Dec 4 19:04 templaterc
drw-r--r-- 2 myuser myuser 4096 May 19 2019 templates
-rw-r--r-- 1 myuser myuser 304 Dec 4 18:27 themerc
drw-r--r-- 2 myuser myuser 4096 May 19 2019 themes
drw-r--r-- 2 myuser myuser 4096 May 19 2019 tmp
drw-r--r-- 2 myuser myuser 4096 May 21 2019 tool-options
drw-r--r-- 2 myuser myuser 4096 May 19 2019 tool-presets
-rw-r--r-- 1 myuser myuser 4136 Dec 4 19:04 toolrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 myuser myuser 1217 Dec 4 19:04 unitrc

1 Answer

Your directories are missing the "execute" flags, so they cannot be traversed to open the files they contain. With /home/*USERNAME*/.config/GIMP/2.10/ as the current directory, use

chmod +x */

... to set the execute flags on directories (in case of problems it might be worth checking that it is also set on the directories above: /home/*USERNAME*/.config/GIMP and /home/*USERNAME*/.config/GIMP/2.10/).

Also check that the files in plug-ins (binaries and python files) have the executable bit set.