theYinYeti Posted November 26, 2005 Report Share Posted November 26, 2005 I've found the first real bad thing in Mdv 2006 (Gnome). When I open a terminal, the current working directory defaults to ~/Desktop instead of ~. When I want to save a file, the default place that gets displayed is ~/Desktop instead of ~. This is getting very annoying. My wife is mad about it (and those stupid "Music", "Video", "Download"... folders that were automatically created), and I keep my own sanity only thanks to my long exposure to the computing world. I tried grep'ing for "Desktop" in /etc and /usr/share, to no avail. I tried simply deleting Desktop, but now the terminal displays this when opened shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file of directory [yves@sedentaire ~]$ How can I revert to a normal situation, where the terminal launches in ~ and not ~/Desktop? Yves. [edit:]I've just tried on a test account to rename Desktop to OLD.Desktop, and to my astonishement, the terminal opened in OLD.Desktop!!! The only explanation I have is that something is keeping track of this directory's inode number, but I grep'ed this number in the home-directory and found nothing...[/edit] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted November 26, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 26, 2005 Further info: my wife deleted the directory this afternoon, and now (after logout, reboot, login), her terminal is working correctly. Mine is not, but I have not logged off yet. I'll see. I still have to see how saving a file works, though... Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted November 27, 2005 Report Share Posted November 27, 2005 Weird... My terminal was opened at ~ by default... :unsure: edit: More info: there seem to be two approaches. When I launch the gnome-terminal from the menu entry, it WILL start in the desktop directory. If I start it, right-clicking on the desktop, it defaults me to ~. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted November 27, 2005 Report Share Posted November 27, 2005 The new folders that get created don't get recreated - see the release notes. There was also some info on the ~Desktop folder... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted November 28, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 28, 2005 Further info: partly solved. I deleted ~/Desktop (and co.) on all accounts. After logout+login, the terminal is OK, and so is the filemanager. However, in the "Save" dialog, the default directory is /, and I think it should be ~. I'm searching... Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uralmasha Posted November 28, 2005 Report Share Posted November 28, 2005 (edited) the proper way to revert to the previous behaviour (documents in ~) is to add empty file named .mdk-no-desktop-launch to your home dir. I think I saw it in the release notes :) Edited November 28, 2005 by uralmasha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted November 28, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 28, 2005 Oh :o I must try this. Thanks! Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jza Posted November 28, 2005 Report Share Posted November 28, 2005 This is a GNOME thing rather than mandriva. I think this might be solve if you use GConf to configure your gnome enviroment. I am not a Gnome Poweruser but I think that gnomesupport.org might help you out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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