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. -- ======================================================================= The truth of a thing is the feel of it, not the think of it. -- Stanley Kubrick ======================================================================= 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
