Public bug reported:
In startup applications, any reference to ~/ (home folder) is
misinterpreted and becomes ~/~/
To test, create an entry in "startup applications" :
gedit ~/Desktop/test
it opens gedit and a doument called test, but the location is invalid, it
becomes:
gedit ~/~/Desktop/test
Tested using ubuntu 10.10 64 bit
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: gnome (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.34-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 9447abb4ed84dd92045ac25a233f3edd
CheckboxSystem: 4ed15c40009aa6f7770f606350a390a2
Date: Fri Oct 15 16:49:23 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: meta-gnome2
** Affects: meta-gnome2 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug maverick ubuntu-une
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ubuntu 10.10 startup applications and files referring to home folder results in
invalid path due to double tilde
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/661271
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