Re: browse startig dir

[Felix Obenhuber <felix obenhuber fh-konstanz de>]

On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 23:11 +0900, Ryan McDougall wrote:
> 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

My USER and HOME are set to the exact values ("asu" and "/home/asu").
I didn't compile GTK myself.
I clicked a little c app using glade-2 which just opens up a filechooser
dialog. It is always set to the PWD i started that application from...

Greetings 
Felix