Re: strange startup directory

[Garrett Mickelson <garrett penguincomputing com>]

Rich,
This has to due with what directory you were in at the time you ran
startx. you should be in your home directory when you run it. 

Good Luck,
Garrett Mickelson



> The last couple of days, I've had some very strange behavior starting 
> programs from the foot menu or a launcher on the panel.
> 
> I'd launch gnome-terminal, and instead of starting at my home directory, 
> the startup directory would be ~/.enlightenment.  This happens for many, 
> maybe all, programs I start via a launcher or the gnome menu.  For 
> certain netscape, gftp, Eterm, and gnome-term.  
> 
> I got sawfish, compiled and installed it, so I could rename .enlight-
> enment enlightenment and run another wm and see what happened. Starting 
> an Eterm from the foot menu, it started in ~/enlightenment! I renamed
> enlightenment oldenlight, and once again, startup directory followed
> to oldenlight. This was repeatable in xterm, gnome-term, Eterm, gftp,
> and netscape.  I can't even guess what kind of diagnostics to run, so
> I include only:
> 
> 
> PWD=/home/nickrud/oldenlight
> TZ=America/Los_Angeles
> COLORFGBG=15;default;0
> COLORTERM_BCE=Eterm
> WINDOWID=41943098
> ETERM_VERSION=0.9
> HZ=100
> HOSTNAME=nickrud
> VIMRUNTIME=/usr/share/vim/vim57
> LESSKEY=/etc/lesskey.out
> USER=nickrud
> MACHTYPE=i686-pc-linux-gnu
> MAIL=/var/spool/mail/nickrud
> COLORTERM=Eterm
> DISPLAY=:0.0
> SHLVL=8
> LOGNAME=nickrud
> HUSHLOGIN=FALSE
> TEXMFMAIN=/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf
> _=/usr/bin/env
> SESSION_MANAGER=local/nickrud:/tmp/.ICE-unix/97
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> HOSTTYPE=i686
> HISTSIZE=1000
> OSTYPE=linux-gnu
> IFS=  
> 
> HOME=/home/nickrud
> TERM=xterm-color
> CFLAGS=-O3 -mcpu=i686 -march=i686
> PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu:/usr/local/enlightenment/bin:/usr/local/netscape:/home/nickrud/bin
> VIM=/usr/share/vim
> ETERM_THEME_ROOT=/usr/local/share/Eterm/themes/Eterm
> 
> 
> ----
> Rich Rudnick
> 
> nickrud citlink net
> 
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Garrett Mickelson
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