On 12/28/13 22:28, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Michael Schwendt writes: > >> On Fri, 27 Dec 2013 21:47:56 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: >> >> > Previously, experimentation showed that gnome-terminal spawns a shell with >> > the current directory inherited from the parent process, and nautilus now >> > appears to run with its current directory as /. >> >> It doesn't do that here. It's specific to your machine. >> >> > I'm guessing that in F19 >> > nautilus 3.8 ran with $HOME for its current directory, and F20's nautilus >> > 3.10 runs from /. Just guessing that this is really nautilus's bug. I think >> > a good argument can be made for nautilus to reset to $HOME after forking off >> > a child process for a launched application, if it's running from /. >> >> Too much speculation. It's good that you can show that it does that for >> your machine, but more interesting would be to find out why/when it does >> that. > > It is not user-specific configuration. This occurs for newly-created users too. I have not done anything to nautilus, I don't even know where its configuration settings are. > Whatever it is, it certainly seems unique to your system. I have a newly installed F20 system and nautilus starts with the user's home directory and when I create a desktop icon for gnome-terminal it starts in the user's home directory. The one thing I've not seen is anyone posting the contents of the desktop file. Mine is.... [egreshko@f20f Desktop]$ cat gnome-terminal.desktop [Desktop Entry] Comment[en_US]= Comment= Exec=/usr/bin/gnome-terminal GenericName[en_US]=Gnome Terminal GenericName=Gnome Terminal Icon=utilities-terminal MimeType= Name[en_US]=gnome-terminal Name=gnome-terminal StartupNotify=true Terminal=false TerminalOptions= Type=Application X-DBUS-ServiceName= X-DBUS-StartupType= X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false X-KDE-Username= -- Getting tired of non-Fedora discussions and self-serving posts
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