On 28 Mar 2006, at 16:39, Sivakumar Shanmugasundaram wrote: > The file-roller is started after a .tgz file is downloaded in Firefox.
Ah, I see... and Firefox downloads files to /tmp before moving them to your chosen download location (if you clicked "save link as") or, in this case, opening them. I don't know if there's any way to configure Firefox's temporary download location without recompiling. I suspect not, but hopefully someone from the browser team will read this and tell us... Cheeri, Calum. > > Calum Benson wrote: >> 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
