Re: Scripts behavior

[Mark McLoughlin <mark skynet ie>]

Hey,

On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 21:23, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On 14 Apr 2003, Johnathan Bailes wrote:
> 
> > 
> > > >From my reading of the code its supposed to change to the directory the 
> > > view displays. If it doesn't, that is a bug and will be fixed some day.
> > > However, if you use NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_CURRENT_URI now that will continue to 
> > > work the day when we fix this.
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> > >  Alexander Larsson                                            Red Hat, Inc 
> > >                    alexl redhat com    alla lysator liu se 
> > > He's a time-tossed coffee-fuelled cyborg on the hunt for the last specimen of 
> > > a great and near-mythical creature. She's a violent thirtysomething 
> > > archaeologist on the trail of a serial killer. They fight crime! 
> > 
> > Sorry for the late reply Alexander and Nautilus-hacker elite.
> > 
> > I thought that should be the default behavior as well but on the
> > g-scripts nautilus scripting site they explained my problem to a T and
> > the behavior seemed to indicate the issue was directly related to the
> > script actually being executed in the $HOME dir and not the directory
> > being viewed.  
> > 
> > I found a bug that seemed to be directly related.  Bug #110407
> > 
> > I am running RedHat9 could this be a factor?
> > 
> > I have my scripts hacked together to work though.  
> > 
> > Thanks for all the hard work.  
>  
> Ah, this seems to be a problem with the libegg 
> egg_screen_execute_command_line_async function. It always uses $home as 
> cwd in the multi-head case. In the non-multihead case it uses 
> g_spawn_command_line_async () which uses cwd.
> 
> This patch changes this behaviour:
> Index: egg-screen-exec.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/gnome/nautilus/cut-n-paste-code/libegg/egg-screen-exec.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.1
> diff -u -p -r1.1 egg-screen-exec.c
> --- egg-screen-exec.c	6 Nov 2002 10:39:04 -0000	1.1
> +++ egg-screen-exec.c	16 Apr 2003 09:21:13 -0000
> @@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ egg_screen_execute_command_line_async (G
>  	if (gdk_screen_get_default () != screen)
>  		envp = egg_screen_exec_environment (screen);
>  
> -	retval = g_spawn_async (g_get_home_dir (),
> +	retval = g_spawn_async (NULL,
>  				argv, envp, G_SPAWN_SEARCH_PATH,
>  				NULL, NULL, NULL, error);
>  	g_strfreev (argv);
> 
> 
>  
> Mark. Do you want to change this in libegg?

	Yeah, looks fine ... wonder why I did that ? :-)

Good Luck,
Mark.