Re: [newbie] Gnome Terminal and Default Desktop Folder

[Neill Jones]

Just in case anyone was interested in how to do this, but didn't know, apparently all you do is create the empty hidden file .mdk-no-desktop-launch in your home directory. (The word "botch" seems to come to mind for some reason). Regards Neill Neill Jones wrote: Hi all Whenever I start up Gnome Terminal it starts my session in ~/Desktop whereas I nearly always want to be in ~. Aside from typing cd ~ each time, how can I get the terminal to start in the default folder I want and not the one Mandriva has assumed I want? Or to put it another way, where is the configuration information that sets this to ~/Desktop? Further to that. In the gnome-terminal properties modify the launch command to gnome-terminal --working-directory=/home/whatever. The .mdk-no-desktop-launch trick did not work for me. The default setting must be fixed internally. Did you try rebooting or relogging in - it only worked for me after a reboot. Neill