Re: defaullt directory for terminals.
Aaron Konstam wrote:
On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 23:19 +0200, Anders Karlsson wrote:
> * Anders Karlsson <anders(a)trudheim.co.uk> [20080731 23:08]:
>
>> * Aaron Konstam <akonstam(a)sbcglobal.net> [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?
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