Is there any way to change the file selection configuration?

[Gaël Bonithon]

------- Original Message -------
On Saturday, November 19th, 2022 at 2:12 PM, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:

> It often goes to the 'Recent' location which isn't actually a
> directory, it's just a list of files/directories that have been
> recently accessed. I'd really rather not have this as it's not
> a 'real' directory, I just find it confusing.

gsettings set org.gtk.Settings.FileChooser startup-mode cwd

> If I run (for example) atril from the command line it doesn't show
> me the current directory when I 'Open file' it shows me the some
> directory I have previously used, often months ago. Is there any
> way to simply tell programs to use a file opening dialog in the
> current directory?

You can try
  gsettings set org.gtk.Settings.FileChooser last-folder-uri '/your/directory'
but it might be overwritten by applications in general.

See also
  gsettings list-recursively org.gtk.Settings.FileChooser

Cheers,
Gaël