GNOME Games needs to be setgid to track high scores. Create a seperate user and group for games. See the README file in the source directory for more information: install -d /var/lib/games && groupadd games && useradd -c 'games' -d /var/lib/games -g games -s /bin/false games && chown games:games /var/lib/games Install GNOME Games by running the following commands: ./configure --prefix=`pkg-config --variable=prefix ORBit-2.0` \ --localstatedir=/var/lib \ --sysconfdir=/etc/gnome && make && make install