defaullt directory for terminals.

[Stephen Berg (Contractor)]

Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 23:19 +0200, Anders Karlsson wrote:
>   
>> * Anders Karlsson <anders at trudheim.co.uk> [20080731 23:08]:
>>     
>>> * Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> [20080731 22:33]:
>>>       
>>>> Does anyone want to defend the change to ~/Desktop as the default
>>>> directory in opened terminals, thus throwing away 20 or 30 years of
>>>> Unix, Linux and Microsoft tradition? 
>>>>         
>>> You mean you don't have a key-combo that opens a terminal for you? ;-)
>>>
>>> Joke aside, I've noticed the change, but this was actually something I
>>> thought was broken in the past, and that it's now actually working the
>>> way it should have done from the start.
>>>
>>> Nautilus usually show you on the desktop what is in ~/Desktop - so why
>>> open a terminal in ~/ when right-clicking the desktop and doing an
>>> "Open in terminal window" (or what the exact wording is).
>>>
>>> You can change what Nautilus shows on your desktop as well, so it uses
>>> your ~/ instead of ~/Desktop. Then, opening a terminal with a
>>> right-click should do what I think you are saying you want it to do.
>>>       
>> To pre-empt the question how to do this, I tested it and came up with
>> this.
>>
>> // This is how you make ~/ what's shown on your Gnome desktop
>> $ gconftool-2 -s --type bool /apps/nautilus/preferences/desktop_is_home_dir true
>> $ killall -1 nautilus
>>
>> // This is how you set it back to ~/Desktop
>> $ gconftool-2 -s --type bool /apps/nautilus/preferences/desktop_is_home_dir false
>> $ killall -1 nautilus
>>
>> I also checked, that if you have desktop_is_home_dir==true,
>> right-click desktop and open terminal will open it in ~/
>>     
Wouldn't setting /apps/nautilus-open-terminal/desktop_opens_home_dir to 
true be the setting to change? 

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