On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 01:05:19AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 10:26:37PM +0100, H.G. Muller wrote: > > > > Chris Bannister schreef op 1/28/2015 om 7:30 PM: > > > > > >e.g. I start it in dir x/y/z, but when saving a position the dialog > > >seems to assume I'm in x/y and I keep having to choose z *each* time I > > >save a .fen file. > > This is weird, as for me it definitely does NOT do that. That it does it > > each time is normal; > > the file selector is called in a mode that does not change XBoard's current > > directory. > > (If it did, this could have all kind of nasty effects on filenames that were > > given earlier > > through a relative path.) But is should have opened in x/y/z all the time, > > not in x/y. > > The directory path in the title bar of xboard is always correct. When a > dialog box opens it seems to have a list of recently used folders, for > example one directory which I could choose was the directory in which I > started xboard, while the other was the Downloads folder.
OK, I found the solution http://askubuntu.com/questions/63202/can-i-stop-apps-from-selecting-recently-used-by-default-in-file-chooser-dialog I changed the setting in the '.config/gtk-2.0/gtkfilechooser.ini' file from 'StartupMode=recent' to 'StartupMode=cwd' and voila! it is now working the way I want. \o/ Not an xboard issue, but handy to know for the archives. Unfortunately it looks like GTK3 doesn't have that option. :( -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X
