.gnome_desktop

[Joao "John" Silva]

Hmm,

Take a look at ~/.gnome/session, I'm almost sure that was the file with
the problem, look at the lines with
CurrentDirectory=

I think one of those lines sets the PWD for the entire Gnome session.

If all else fails you can try 'mv .gnome .gnome-old' and start it again
to reset all the settings and compare the two.

And I think Andy was right, I got into that problem by being in a weird
working directory (other than ~) when I started Gnome (startx) shouldn't
make a difference but for some reason it did to Gnome.

This was on vanilla Gnome from Redhat 6.0, it was probably a common
problem for users, so it might show up on dejanews. Maybe Gnome was
still having teething problems with that version, I ended up returning
to KDE so I dunno if the current versions have that problem or not.

Hope that helps.

--John (Joao) Silva

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
> 


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
>