Gnome terminal

[Paul W. Frields]

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:32:18AM -0600, Marc Schwartz wrote:
> Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 14:37 +0100, Theodore Papadopoulo wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> I recently upgraded from Fedora 7 to Fedora 10.
> >> One thing that midly annoys me is that whenever I'm starting up a new 
> >> terminal
> >> (from the menu in the background not form the menu in the panel), the 
> >> new terminal
> >> starts with a current work dir being ~/Desktop (instead of ~/).
> >> 
> >> Is this an upgrade problem or something that has been changed. In the 
> >> later case,
> >> is there a way to restore the f7 behaviour (ie cwd being ~/).
> >> 
> >>   Thank's a lot for any insight.
> >> 
> >>     Theo.
> >> 
> > I could have sworn that there was an option for this in Configuration
> > Editor (or .gconf) but I cannot find it, so that is not much help.
> 
> There is a bug posted here:
> 
>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468293
> 
> with no follow up since it was posted last October. I just updated it
> with the following info:
> 
> 
> In follow up, this behavior is controlled in:
> 
>   /apps/nautilus-open-terminal/desktop_opens_home_dir
> 
> Note that this is NOT:
> 
>   /apps/nautilus/preferences/desktop_is_home_dir
> 
> which will change the behavior of the terminal when opened from the
> background menu, but it will ALSO make your desktop your home directory.

As noted here, in the Fedora 9 Release Notes:

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f9/en_US/sn-PackageNotes.html#sn-utility-packages

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