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 ~/ > > /Anders > Much easier to do it with the Configuration Editor; yoo don't have to remember that stuff in the execution line. -- ======================================================================= Two is not equal to three, even for large values of two. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
