If I start osso-xterm (installed normally by the application installer from http://770.fs-security.com/xterm/) the shell is in the / directory. However, I would very much like to have the shell running in the xterm be in ~ (i.e., /home/users, which is my $HOME). I must be overlooking something trivial. I tried among other things to make a my-xterm.desktop file, replacing the Exec= Exec entry of 0301_osso_xterm.desktop by Exec=(cd /home/user; /var/lib/install/usr/bin/osso-xterm) or to start a shell script which first cd-s into ~, then starts osso-xterm. The latter works fine from the command line, but when I try it from the application menu, nothing happens. This strikes me as weird since following Israel Herraiz' examples in his blog one can start shell scripts from the extra applications menu. I have also tried putting cd /home/user into .profile and .ashrc (which is in the ENV via .profile), but all this changes nothing. It's a minor thing, but if someone has an idea, I'd appreciate it. Thanks, Stefan -- Stefan Boresch Institute for Biomolecular Structural Chemistry University of Vienna, Waehringerstr. 17 A-1090 Vienna, Austria Phone: -43-1-427752715 Fax: -43-1-427752790
