I have (2) OpenSolaris/Nevada systems, one build 87, the other build 90. I used dtterm, instead of the xterm that Rich specifies.
Opening then under Gnome, both systems open at ~Desktop, instead of my home directory. Jerry K Calum Benson wrote: > On 10 Sep 2008, at 15:25, Rich Teer wrote: > >> On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, James Andrewartha wrote: >> >>> It's fixed in GNOME 2.24[1] which will land in snv_99 [2]. >> Hopefully the other annoying gratuitous change recently introduced >> with Gnome (i.e., xterm et al open in ~/Documents rather than ~ >> by default; what clown thought of THAT one?!) will also be fixed in >> that release. > > If you mean right-clicking on the desktop to select "Open in Terminal" > opens the terminal in ~/Desktop rather than $HOME, then yes, that's > been recently fixed. (I presume the GNOME folks changed this to be > consistent--selecting that menu item in any other folder has always > opened a terminal cd'ed to that folder, so they wanted the desktop to > behave the same way. But at least they gave us the option to keep the > old behaviour...) > > I'm not aware of xterm ever having opened in ~/Documents, though... > that's unlikely to be anything to do with GNOME. > > Cheeri, > Calum. >
