Is there any way to change the file selection configuration?

[Chris Green]

On Sun, Nov 20, 2022 at 12:20:45PM +0000, Gaël Bonithon wrote:
> ------- 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
> 
Thank you Gaël, I'll have a look at the above settings.

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Chris Green