Just a note that this no longer happens now that I'm running 12.04 with Unity; Unity's run dialog expands tilde correctly. Still broken in Gnome panel 3.2.0 though.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-panel in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/664592 Title: Run dialog (Alt-F2) fails to expand tilde (~) into home Status in Desktop panel for GNOME: New Status in “gnome-panel” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: gnome-panel I'm running a Lucid desktop, but with UNE as the interface. In UNIX, the tilde character ~ usually refers to the user's home directory. However, the run dialog doesn't seem to support this. Steps to reproduce: 1. In a terminal: $ echo "hello" > ~/foo $ cat ~/foo hello 2. Press Alt+F2 to bring up the run dialog. Enter: gedit ~/foo Expected result: have ~/foo open in gedit with the content "hello". Actual result: a file called foo opens, but it's empty and obviously not the one created. From gedit's title I'm guessing the run dialog passes ~ as the name of a directory residing within the actual ~, user's home. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-panel/+bug/664592/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
