On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 14:37 +0100, Theodore Papadopoulo wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I recently upgraded from Fedora 7 to Fedora 10. >>> One thing that midly annoys me is that whenever I'm starting up a new >>> terminal >>> (from the menu in the background not form the menu in the panel), the >>> new terminal >>> starts with a current work dir being ~/Desktop (instead of ~/). >>> >>> Is this an upgrade problem or something that has been changed. In the >>> later case, >>> is there a way to restore the f7 behaviour (ie cwd being ~/). >>> >>> Thank's a lot for any insight. >>> >>> Theo. >>> >> I could have sworn that there was an option for this in Configuration >> Editor (or .gconf) but I cannot find it, so that is not much help. > > There is a bug posted here: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468293 > > with no follow up since it was posted last October. I just updated it > with the following info: > > > In follow up, this behavior is controlled in: > > /apps/nautilus-open-terminal/desktop_opens_home_dir > > Note that this is NOT: > > /apps/nautilus/preferences/desktop_is_home_dir > > which will change the behavior of the terminal when opened from the > background menu, but it will ALSO make your desktop your home directory. > > This bug is probably more correctly filed against "nautilus-open-terminal". > > The following appears in the NEWS file for 0.9: > > Add GConf key for deciding whether right-clicking the desktop opens home > directory or desktop directory. > Use g_get_user_special_dir() to determine the desktop directory, and falls back > to ~/Desktop (#468955). > > > HTH, > > Marc Schwartz Google search is your and my friend. A search found this Ubuntu link: http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2008/11/06/update-nautilus-open-terminal-behavior/ The fix is to run this as root: gconftool-2 --set --type=bool /apps/nautilus-open-terminal/desktop_opens_home_dir true -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
