It's not very intuitive ... I set what Geeqie calls "Home path" to
Pictures with (/home/david/Pictures as the home path) and then set the
'Restore last path' option ... so now my system opens with
2000
2001
2002
......

bit of a mess

David


On Sat, 2012-04-07 at 18:15 +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 06:18:21PM +0200, Henry Gebhardt wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 04:26:12PM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> > > Is it possible to 'root' the tree somewhere in my home directory?  I.e.
> > > I want only to see the contents of the hiearchy under 
> > > /home/chris/pictures,
> > > at least by default that's all I want to see.
> > 
> > If I understand you correctly, this is what you want:
> > 
> > Select "Edit" -> "Preferences" -> "Configure this Window...", and set
> > the home path.
> > 
> > Then, geeqie will open in the selceted folder by default.
> > 
> Yes, you have understood OK.
> 
> However it's only part of what I wanted.  If I set /home/chris/pictures
> as my "Home Path" and set the Start Up Directory: to Home Path then,
> yes, when geeqie starts /home/chris/pictures is where I am. But there's
> all my other directories visible there too and I really don't want to
> see them, they just waste space in the file browser and mean that my
> pictures 'home' is indented unnecessarily.
> 
> What I want to see in the browser sidebar is:-
> 
> pictures
>   1960s
>   1970s
>   1980s
>   1990s 
>   2000s
>   2010s
> 
> 
> What I actually get to see is:-
> 
> /
>   bak
>   bin
>   ..... loads and loads of other irrelevant directories
>   ....
>   home
>     ben
>     chris
>       bin
>       ... 13 or so more of *my* directories
>       ...
>       pictures
>         1960s
>         1970s
>         1980s
>         1990s 
>         2000s
>         2010s
>       sound
>       src
>       tmp
>     ...
>     ... everyone else's home directories
>     ... and so on
> 
> 
> 



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