Terminal and Thunar starting in /

Benedikt Meurer benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de
Tue Jan 9 13:17:27 CET 2007


Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> Benedikt Meurer wrote:
>> Can we perhaps change xfce_exec() to use the home dir for the current
>> working directory by default?
> 
> That's fine by me; I can't think of how that would break any existing code.
> 
> We could also add an xfce_exec_with_cwd() call, but that sounds kinda lame.
> 
>> The other possible way would be to chdir()
>> to home in thunar-vfs, assuming that the user will never want to delete
>> it's home directory anyway. ;-)
> 
> Dunno what the implications of this are, so that's up to you...

Ok, thunar-vfs changes back to the previous working directory now.
However, while listing directory contents, the working directory will be
different. This shouldn't happen all too often, but still it's possible...

> 	-brian

Benedikt



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