Re: panel's root directory futzed

["Kevin D. Knerr, Sr." <kknerrsr ptdprolog net>]

On 30 May, Eric Sproul wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm having a hard time figuring out how to explain this, but a while
> back I had a problem where the gnome panel crashed while I was changing
> the background image, and I manually launched it from a terminal
> window.  The trouble is, I launched it from the ~/.gnome/panel.d/default
> directory, so now whenever I bring up a terminal or save dialog, its
> "root" is this directory instead of my home directory.  This is rather
> annoying, and when I try to kill the panel and restart it from a
> different directory, it respawns by itself from the same old
> place.  Quitting and restarting X doesn't help, and I can't find
> anything in a config file that would enable me to specify the starting
> location.

I had a similar problem once. Turns out that the info is stored in
~/.gnome/session -- each session managed app has a CurrentDirectory
option. All you need to do is to exit X, edit the session file and
restart X and you should be back in business.

Regards,

Barthel
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