* 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 ~/ /Anders -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
