Re: gnome-terminal in F20 defaults to / for the initial directory

2013-12-29 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Michael Schwendt writes: It may not even be a bug in Nautilus either, since other components take care of stopping/starting it (e.g. gnome-tweak-tool and gnome-shell). What happens if you kill all nautilus processes, then start a terminal (e.g. gnome-terminal) in a way that it starts in

Re: gnome-terminal in F20 defaults to / for the initial directory

2013-12-28 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 27 Dec 2013 21:47:56 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Previously, experimentation showed that gnome-terminal spawns a shell with the current directory inherited from the parent process, and nautilus now appears to run with its current directory as /. It doesn't do that here. It's

Re: gnome-terminal in F20 defaults to / for the initial directory

2013-12-28 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Michael Schwendt writes: On Fri, 27 Dec 2013 21:47:56 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Previously, experimentation showed that gnome-terminal spawns a shell with the current directory inherited from the parent process, and nautilus now appears to run with its current directory as /. It

Re: gnome-terminal in F20 defaults to / for the initial directory

2013-12-28 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/28/13 22:28, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Michael Schwendt writes: On Fri, 27 Dec 2013 21:47:56 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Previously, experimentation showed that gnome-terminal spawns a shell with the current directory inherited from the parent process, and nautilus now appears to

Re: gnome-terminal in F20 defaults to / for the initial directory

2013-12-28 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sat, 28 Dec 2013 09:28:43 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: 3.10 runs from /. Just guessing that this is really nautilus's bug. I think a good argument can be made for nautilus to reset to $HOME after forking off a child process for a launched application, if it's running from /.

Re: gnome-terminal in F20 defaults to / for the initial directory

2013-12-27 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Thu, 26 Dec 2013 22:02:29 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: * Hit the top right corner with the pointer. Doesn't work. Hit it again. The favourites bar slides in from the right. Yay. Pressing the Meta-key (aka Super-key or Windows-key) is a more convenient way, also just to get to the

Re: gnome-terminal in F20 defaults to / for the initial directory

2013-12-27 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Michael Schwendt writes: On Thu, 26 Dec 2013 22:02:29 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: * Hit the top right corner with the pointer. Doesn't work. Hit it again. The favourites bar slides in from the right. Yay. Pressing the Meta-key (aka Super-key or Windows-key) is a more convenient way,

Re: gnome-terminal in F20 defaults to / for the initial directory

2013-12-27 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 27 Dec 2013 08:44:47 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: And now, in F20, Gnome found more ways to break traditional desktops, by finding a way to have gnome-terminal open in / instead of the home directory, when it gets launched from a desktop icon. It doesn't do that here. I used

Re: gnome-terminal in F20 defaults to / for the initial directory

2013-12-27 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Michael Schwendt writes: On Fri, 27 Dec 2013 08:44:47 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: And now, in F20, Gnome found more ways to break traditional desktops, by finding a way to have gnome-terminal open in / instead of the home directory, when it gets launched from a desktop icon. It doesn't

Re: gnome-terminal in F20 defaults to / for the initial directory

2013-12-27 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 27 Dec 2013 10:01:25 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: I used gnome-tweak-tool to enable desktop icons, then copied a gnome-terminal.desktop file from another account, had to mark it as trusted, and double-clicking it starts a new terminal with default path being $HOME. Well, my

Re: gnome-terminal in F20 defaults to / for the initial directory

2013-12-27 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Michael Schwendt writes: On Fri, 27 Dec 2013 10:01:25 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: I used gnome-tweak-tool to enable desktop icons, then copied a gnome-terminal.desktop file from another account, had to mark it as trusted, and double-clicking it starts a new terminal with default path

Re: gnome-terminal in F20 defaults to / for the initial directory

2013-12-27 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Because it's par for the course Not in this case. You have specific behavior which doesn't match anyone else. You should create a new user and check. If you can still reproduce it, file a bug report. Rahul -- users mailing list

Re: gnome-terminal in F20 defaults to / for the initial directory

2013-12-27 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Rahul Sundaram writes: Hi On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Because it's par for the course Not in this case.  You have specific behavior which doesn't match anyone else.  You should create a new user and check.  If you can still reproduce it, file a bug report.

Re: gnome-terminal in F20 defaults to / for the initial directory

2013-12-27 Thread Rahul Sundaram
HI On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Rahul Sundaram writes: Hi On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Because it's par for the course Not in this case. You have specific behavior which doesn't match anyone else. You should create a new user

Re: gnome-terminal in F20 defaults to / for the initial directory

2013-12-27 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Rahul Sundaram writes: « HTML content follows » HI On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Rahul Sundaram writes: Hi On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:    Because it's par for the course Not in this case.  You have specific

Re: gnome-terminal in F20 defaults to / for the initial directory

2013-12-27 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 27 Dec 2013 16:35:27 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Bug report #? 1046980. Is that with or without SELinux enforcing mode? If with SELinux, is it reproducible also with SELinux permissive mode? Some programs enter fs root, if something is wrong with /home. -- users mailing list

Re: gnome-terminal in F20 defaults to / for the initial directory

2013-12-27 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Michael Schwendt writes: On Fri, 27 Dec 2013 16:35:27 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Bug report #? 1046980. Is that with or without SELinux enforcing mode? If with SELinux, is it reproducible also with SELinux permissive mode? Some programs enter fs root, if something is wrong with /home.

gnome-terminal in F20 defaults to / for the initial directory

2013-12-26 Thread Sam Varshavchik
That's pretty much it. After upgrading to F20, launching gnome terminal starts a shell with its current directory of / instead of $HOME. Very annoying. gnome-terminal appears to inherit the parent process's home directory. If I launch gnome-terminal from another terminal window, the new

Re: gnome-terminal in F20 defaults to / for the initial directory

2013-12-26 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Thu, 26 Dec 2013 19:17:04 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: That's pretty much it. After upgrading to F20, launching gnome terminal starts a shell with its current directory of / instead of $HOME. Very annoying. gnome-terminal appears to inherit the parent process's home directory. If I

Re: gnome-terminal in F20 defaults to / for the initial directory

2013-12-26 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Michael Schwendt writes: On Thu, 26 Dec 2013 19:17:04 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: That's pretty much it. After upgrading to F20, launching gnome terminal starts a shell with its current directory of / instead of $HOME. Very annoying. gnome-terminal appears to inherit the parent