On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 00:20, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:01:31 +0000, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > > > On 27/02/12 17:50, Tom H wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Alberto Fuentes > >> <alberto.fuen...@qindel.com> wrote: > >>> On 25/02/12 02:59, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Whenever I start an xterm, I notice that it starts in ~/Documents > >>>> rather than in the home directory. Why is that? Where is it set? > >>>> > >>>> And can it be set to the HOME directory? > >>> > >>> well, its something of kde. Im using testing and it happens the same > >>> to me. i did not found where is set in kde. I asked in #debian-kde and > >>> i was told to just 'cd' at the end of my .bashrc and, you know what? > >>> it works :D > >> > >> But that doesn't explain why it's happening. > >> > >> > > Agreed. But I put the command in .bashrc, .bash_profile and .profile > > and, indeed, it does work. I don't mind having a Documents > > sub-directory. I just object to being put there without my permission. > > Who's in control here? Is it the KDE team or me? Well! > > It seems to be a known KDE bug: > > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201072 > > Greetings, > > -- > Camaleón > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jigj96$288$1...@dough.gmane.org > >
xterm normally starts in the PWD of the calling process. KDE parent process may be using ~/Documents. I overcome this by specifically using an override in .bashrc if [ "$PWD" == $HOME/Documents ] then cd $HOME fi -- http://saurorja.org Twitter: @anand_sivaram
