Re: browse startig dir

[Ryan McDougall <NQG24419 nifty com>]

On Wed, 2005-02-03 at 10:46 +0100, Felix Obenhuber wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 10:30 +0900, Ryan McDougall wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-01-03 at 18:05 +0100, Felix Obenhuber wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > When i start browsing my file tree e.g. want to open a file in gimv/open
> > > with etc. with some gnome apps the starting directory is always /usr/bin
> > > where the application is located. It would be great if the entry point
> > > could be set to my homedir. Is it possible to set this by a gconf key?
> > > didn't find anything...
> > > 
> > > thx and greetings
> > > Felix
> > > 
> > 
> > What version of gimp and gtk do you have?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Ryan
> 
> Hi Ryan,
> 
> Sorry i forgot. I'm using:
> 
> linux 2.6.10
> Debian testing/unstable
> gnome-session 2.8.0
> nautilus 2.8.2
> gimp 2.2.3
> gtk lib 2.4.14
> 
> greetings 
> Felix
> 

Thats funny, because filechooser (GTK 2.4, Gnome 2.8) always opens to
home. I think GTK doesn't know what user you are, or it can't find your
$HOME...

What does echo $USER or $HOME say? Did you compile GTK yourself?

Cheers,
Ryan