Re: defaullt directory for terminals.

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On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 09:09 -0500, Stephen Berg (Contractor) wrote:
> Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 23:19 +0200, Anders Karlsson wrote:
> >   
> >> * Anders Karlsson <anders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [20080731 23:08]:
> >>     
> >>> * Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [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? 
You are right. That is the variable to make true to have the terminal
open to the home directory instead of the Desktop directory.
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