Terminal and Thunar starting in /

Brian J. Tarricone bjt23 at cornell.edu
Sat Jan 6 00:47:45 CET 2007


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Benedikt Meurer wrote:

> thunar-vfs now chdir()'s when listing folder contents to avoid inode
> lookups for each and every file. Afterwards thunar-vfs chdir() to "/" to
> avoid blocking a folder removal with certain file systems (i.e. smbfs).

That sounds pretty evil.  A library is changing the app's working
directory out from under it?  Boooooo!

> Looks like xfdesktop doesn't specify a working directory when launching
> applications from the menu.

It uses xfce_exec(), so it can't.

	-brian


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