Why is a terminal in F9 starting in ~/Documents?

[Steven W. Orr]

On Tuesday, Nov 4th 2008 at 01:46 -0000, quoth g:

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=>Steven W. Orr wrote:
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=>> Sorry, I didn't think I needed to mention it. I'm running KDE. Those must 
=>> be gnome instructions.
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=>no problem. i use kde also. no, they are from 'konsole'.
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=>my error was in my reply of 2008.1104.00:13:44 utc in that i clicked wrong
=>message and replied to paul w frields post of 2008.1103.21:33:49 utc,
=>wherein he infers his reply was for gnome. i guess he clicked wrong message
=>also.
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=>anyway, if this clears up what we did, great.
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=>so again, 'big q'. did you correct your start directory problem straightened?

No! This is a problem in the way the X server is configured. The xterm 
just starts in the directory that it's started from. It's the server 
that's in the wrong directory.

Is no one else unhappy with this?

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