On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Kam Leo <kam.leo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > Note: My email mangled the command above. It should all be on the same line. Or 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
