The file-roller is started after a .tgz file is downloaded in Firefox. So, the next question would be how to make a different directory instead of /tmp?
Thanks Siva Calum Benson wrote: > > On 28 Mar 2006, at 14:38, Sivakumar Shanmugasundaram wrote: > >> How can I change the default extract directory in the file-roller? >> When I press 'Extract', the default directory that comes up is '/tmp'. >> This is okay on a desktop, but on a Sun Ray system, the file-roller >> hangs for a few seconds till it reads the million (or so it seems) >> files & directories in the /tmp directory. > > Hmm... do you have write permission on the directory containing the > tarball? For me, the default file-roller directory is always the one > containing the tarball, but I don't know what it tries next if it's not > allowed to write there. > > Cheeri, > Calum. > > --CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland > mailto:calum.benson at sun.com Java Desktop System Team > http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 > > Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems > >
