On 28 Mar 2006, at 14:38, Sivakumar Shanmugasundaram wrote: > How can I change the default extract directory in the file-roller? > When I press 'Extract', the default directory that comes up is '/ > tmp'. This is okay on a desktop, but on a Sun Ray system, the file- > roller hangs for a few seconds till it reads the million (or so it > seems) files & directories in the /tmp directory.
Hmm... do you have write permission on the directory containing the tarball? For me, the default file-roller directory is always the one containing the tarball, but I don't know what it tries next if it's not allowed to write there. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.benson at sun.com Java Desktop System Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems
