On Sun, Nov 20, 2022 at 12:20:45PM +0000, Gaël Bonithon wrote: > ------- Original Message ------- > On Saturday, November 19th, 2022 at 2:12 PM, Chris Green <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > It often goes to the 'Recent' location which isn't actually a > > directory, it's just a list of files/directories that have been > > recently accessed. I'd really rather not have this as it's not > > a 'real' directory, I just find it confusing. > > gsettings set org.gtk.Settings.FileChooser startup-mode cwd > > > If I run (for example) atril from the command line it doesn't show > > me the current directory when I 'Open file' it shows me the some > > directory I have previously used, often months ago. Is there any > > way to simply tell programs to use a file opening dialog in the > > current directory? > > You can try > gsettings set org.gtk.Settings.FileChooser last-folder-uri '/your/directory' > but it might be overwritten by applications in general. > > See also > gsettings list-recursively org.gtk.Settings.FileChooser > Thank you Gaël, I'll have a look at the above settings.
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