You can use a space instead of '=', i.e.: gnome-terminal --working-directory ~/Storage It'll work as you'd expect.
It's a feature of the *shell* that it looks up the home directory if the '~' is the first character of a word. If you use '=' as separator then '~' is not the first character and hence the shell doesn't expand it. The '~' itself, when literally part of a filename, does not refer to a home directory and should remain a literal '~'. It's only the shell (and a few more apps that deliberately choose to mimic the shell's behavior) that treats '~' specially. So, gnome-terminal works as expected. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org