defaullt directory for terminals.

[Anders Karlsson]

* 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 ~/

/Anders