Hello, I am having a problem and was wondering if someone might be able to help me out. I have a quicklaunch applet on my gnome panel. Interestingly, when i start xterm or axyftp from the quicklaunch, /root shows up as the default home directory:
satchel[/root]% I tried removing ~/.gnome/quicklaunch completely and creating a new one, but ran into the same problem. I also removed it from the panel, shut down and placed a fresh quicklauncher with the same result. I thought that it may be a permissions problem and I did a recursive chmod 770 ~/.gnome to give user access to the necessary directories. Again, this approach failed. What is strange is that when I start quicklaunch_applet from a console as user, it places the launcher on the panel, and when i open xterm or axyftp the default is my home directory: satchel[~]% I am not sure why this is happening, and I was wondering if anyone could suggest something to remedy this problem. I looked at man quicklaunch_applet and it did not give any indication for why this may be happening. Thanks in advance for any help with this. -Jake Below is a full listing of the ~/.gnome directory: 4 drwxrwx--- 11 jake jake 4096 Jun 25 19:40 . 4 drwxr-sr-x 65 jake jake 4096 Jun 25 19:40 .. 4 -rwxrwx--- 1 jake jake 15 Jun 8 10:31 .cddbstatus 4 -rwxrwx--- 1 jake jake 10 Jun 8 10:31 .cddbstatus_lock 4 -rw------- 1 jake jake 2 Jun 25 19:40 .gnome-smproxy-63eouQ 4 -rwxrwx--- 1 jake jake 2 Jun 8 10:31 .gnome-smproxy-DJzyGb 4 -rwxrwx--- 1 jake jake 73 Jun 8 10:31 AbiWord Personal 4 -rwxrwx--- 1 jake jake 120 Jun 18 17:16 Background 4 -rwxrwx--- 1 jake jake 36 Jun 8 10:31 Evolution 4 -rwxrwx--- 1 jake jake 54 Jun 8 10:31 GnoZip 4 -rwxrwx--- 1 jake jake 768 Jun 18 17:17 Gnome 4 -rwxrwx--- 1 jake jake 438 Jun 8 10:31 GnomeHelp 4 -rwxrwx--- 1 jake jake 473 Jun 8 10:31 LnxZip 4 -rwxrwx--- 1 jake jake 35 Jun 8 11:01 Terminal 4 -rwxrwx--- 1 jake jake 35 Jun 8 10:31 XEmacs 4 drwxrwx--- 2 jake jake 4096 Jun 18 17:15 accels 4 drwxrwx--- 2 jake jake 4096 Jun 18 17:16 application-info 4 drwxrwx--- 2 jake jake 4096 Jun 24 10:40 apps 4 -rwxrwx--- 1 jake jake 3263 Jun 25 18:31 balsa 4 -rwxrwx--- 1 jake jake 99 Jun 8 10:31 cddbslave 4 -rwxrwx--- 1 jake jake 35 Jun 24 18:59 control-center 4 -rwxrwx--- 1 jake jake 30 Jun 8 10:31 default.wm 4 -rwxrwx--- 1 jake jake 84 Jun 18 17:16 editor 4 -rwxrwx--- 1 jake jake 35 Jun 8 10:31 evolution 4 -rwxrwx--- 1 jake jake 58 Jun 8 10:31 gmc 4 -rwxrwx--- 1 jake jake 1257 Jun 25 19:40 gmix 4 -rwxrwx--- 1 jake jake 213 Jun 18 17:15 gnapster 4 -rwxrwx--- 1 jake jake 25 Jun 8 10:40 gnome-hint 4 -rwxrwx--- 1 jake jake 29 Jun 18 17:17 gnome-hint-properties 4 -rwxrwx--- 1 jake jake 35 Jun 8 10:31 gnome-napster 4 -rwxrwx--- 1 jake jake 377 Jun 8 10:31 gtcd 4 -rwxrwx--- 1 jake jake 479 Jun 18 17:16 gtkhtml 4 -rwxrwx--- 1 jake jake 108 Jun 18 17:16 gtkhtml-bindings-custom 20 -rwxrwx--- 1 jake jake 20480 Jun 8 10:31 metadata.db 4 drwxrwx--- 2 jake jake 4096 Jun 18 17:16 mime-info 4 -rwxrwx--- 1 jake jake 1795 Jun 25 19:40 panel 4 drwxrwx--- 3 jake jake 4096 Jun 25 19:40 panel.d 4 drwxrwx--- 2 jake jake 4096 Jun 24 11:43 quicklaunch 4 -rwxrwx--- 1 jake jake 152 Jun 24 11:45 quicklaunch_applet 4 -rwxrwx--- 1 jake jake 37 Jun 8 10:31 red-carpet 8 -rwxrwx--- 1 jake jake 6315 Jun 25 19:58 session 4 -rwxrwx--- 1 jake jake 25 Jun 8 17:46 session-manual 4 -rwxrwx--- 1 jake jake 85 Jun 8 17:46 session-options 4 -rwxrwx--- 1 jake jake 435 Jun 8 10:53 sonicmail 4 drwxrwx--- 2 jake jake 4096 Jun 8 11:16 sound 4 -rwxrwx--- 1 jake jake 124 Jun 8 10:31 theme-switcher-capplet 4 drwxrwx--- 2 jake jake 4096 Jun 8 10:37 wm-properties Below is a listing of my .gnome/quicklaunch directory: total 84 4 drwxrwx--- 2 jake jake 4096 Jun 24 11:43 . 4 drwxrwx--- 11 jake jake 4096 Jun 25 19:40 .. 4 -rwxrwx--- 1 jake jake 174 Jun 24 11:19 Applet_10.desktop 4 -rwxrwx--- 1 jake jake 154 Jun 24 11:19 Applet_11.desktop 4 -rwxrwx--- 1 jake jake 185 Jun 24 11:19 Applet_12.desktop 4 -rwxrwx--- 1 jake jake 168 Jun 24 11:19 Applet_13.desktop 4 -rwxrwx--- 1 jake jake 188 Jun 24 11:19 Applet_14.desktop 4 -rwxrwx--- 1 jake jake 171 Jun 24 11:19 Applet_9.desktop 4 -rwxrwx--- 1 jake jake 1600 Jun 24 11:19 Emacs.desktop 4 -rwxrwx--- 1 jake jake 1744 Jun 24 11:19 UNIX-regular.desktop 4 -rwxrwx--- 1 jake jake 145 Jun 24 11:19 dropped-entry-17065f0e.desktop 4 -rwxrwx--- 1 jake jake 224 Jun 24 11:19 dropped-entry-1b30c68b.desktop 4 -rwxrwx--- 1 jake jake 148 Jun 24 11:30 dropped-entry-2a8227fa.desktop 4 -rwxrwx--- 1 jake jake 1961 Jun 24 11:19 dropped-entry-2e6f270c.desktop a0cc75.desktop 4 -rwxrwx--- 1 jake jake 722 Jun 24 11:45 dropped-entry-5fc323fa.desktop 4 -rwxrwx--- 1 jake jake 142 Jun 24 11:19 dropped-entry-64934f49.desktop 4 -rwxrwx--- 1 jake jake 213 Jun 24 11:27 dropped-entry-6cdc54ac.desktop 4 -rwxrwx--- 1 jake jake 150 Jun 24 11:28 dropped-entry-76120e2d.desktop 4 -rwxrwx--- 1 jake jake 1043 Jun 24 11:31 dropped-entry-7713ae97.desktop 4 -rwxrwx--- 1 jake jake 776 Jun 24 11:19 gnome-stones.desktop
