.gnome_desktop

'Lumberjack' A. Parker zaphod42 at u.washington.edu
Tue Apr 18 05:47:37 PDT 2000


The only time that I have seen the terminals in X put me somewhere other
than my home dir is when I type startx with my PWD somewhere else.

That was a convoluted way of saying the terminals use the PWD of where you
typed startx.

Hope this helps,
Andy Parker

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zaphod42 at u.washington.edu

On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Meph Istopheles wrote:

>   Hey John,
> 
> > Try grep'ing for that dir name in ~/.gnome and the offending
> > settings file should turn up, that's how I found it but I don't
> > remember which file it was.
> 
>   Well, did that -- even grepped the whole of my home.  No luck.
>  The only places I ~did~ find it were in cache files.
> 
>   Aaarrrggghhh...
> 
>   Meph
> 
> --
>   I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody.
>   -Dave '-ddt->' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
> 



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