Hi Paul, Thanks for the clarification. Maybe my way of working was old-fashioned but it was certainly useful for me! Thanks for considering a work-around.
Regarding changes to the file chooser, I'm not sure what feature in the release notes for 1.1.20 I should be looking for. I couldn't see anything obvious. /Derek > On 9 Jan 2026, at 03:11, Paul Emsley > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 08/01/2026 15:15, Derek Logan wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I recently began to use Coot-1 and am slowly getting used to it (currently >> on 1.1.19). However, there is one thing that I still haven't adjusted to and >> would like to know what my options are. Even if I start Coot-1 from the >> command line, it will always open the same set of files that I am already >> working on, no matter what directory I am in. > > Yes, It was my understanding that this is the expected (even desired) > behavior for a modern desktop application. > >> In previous versions it would read the preferences file 0-coot.state.scm >> from the current directory, or create one if it didn't exist. This was very >> handy when hopping from one project to another, which I have to do on a >> daily basis, so I could in fact have several instances of Coot running at >> the same time that didn't overlap. Is it possible to restore this behaviour >> in Coot-1? I can't even work out what the Coot-1 equivalent of >> 0-coot.state.scm is. > > Coot now follows the XDG Base Directory Specification, so look in > ~/.local/state/Coot > > I didn't know other people worked like that. > > I will add a setting which will mean that quick-save and end session save > files are written to the local directory. > >> Also, Coot-1 always opens the file selector in "Recents" rather than the >> last directory I visited. Say I just opened a PDB file involving several >> clicks to get to the directory and I want to open the corresponding MTZ file >> in the same place without having to do all those clicks again. Is there a >> way to set this up? > > You are using 1.1.19. See the Release Notes for 1.1.20. > > Paul. > > ######################################################################## > > To unsubscribe from the COOT list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=COOT&A=1 > > This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/COOT, a mailing list > hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/ ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the COOT list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=COOT&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/COOT, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/
