Gnome terminal

[Paul W. Frields]

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 02:47:02PM +0100, Joachim Backes wrote:
> Erik P. Olsen wrote:
>> On 17/01/09 00:48, Kam Leo wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 02:15:30PM -0800, Kam Leo wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> You'd only want to do this on a per-user basis, so that's the expected
>>>>>> behavior.  Global GConf schemas and defaults are stored in /etc/gconf.
>>>>> How does one view or edit the global GConf schemas?
>>>> Personally, I just use a text editor.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Paul W. Frields                                http://paul.frields.org/
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> I did more googling and found another package that is not installed by
>>> default: gconf-editor
>>>
>>> After installing the package you click on Applications->System
>>> Tools->Configuration Editor and drill down the apps directory until
>>> you get to nautilus-open-terminal. Click on it to open the file. Then,
>>> you can set or reset the boolean for desktop_opens_home_dir. However,
>>> I don't see any way to create an entry/value pair if one is not
>>> present. Is there a GUI applet for that function?
>>>
>>
>> I don't have this nautilus-open-terminal on my Fedora 10 system. Is it a
>> leftover from an earlier release?
>>
>
> No,
>
> it got lost when upgrading (I think) from FC7 to FC8. Scince these days,  
> it has to be installed manually (and will be forgotten at each upgrade,  
> that's my experience).

It's a separate package Fedora has had since the Fedora Core 5 days.
I think it's still not included by default, but it's been continually
available since then.

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