Re: Orbit's temp. directory

[Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>]

On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, David Johnston wrote:

> On my system, a directory named /tmp/orbit-USERNAME gets created for 
> every user who starts Gnome.  I would prefer that this be created in 
> /home/USERNAME/tmp/orbit.  How would I go about doing this?

Basically, you can hack the ORBit code yourself

It would be a really bad idea. /home is very often on NFS, and UNIX
sockets on an NFS-mounted path don't work on a number of operating
systems, and the directory is per-[machine,user], not simply per-user.

-- Elliot
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