Hi Darren,
> > Another minor point of annoyance is the creation of several directories
> > in the users home (Pictures, Videos, Music etc) where would one disable
> > that?
>
> If you really dis-like this you can disable this functionality system-wide by
> editing the /etc/xdg/user-dirs.conf and settings enabled to False.
Thanks, that seems to be the one.
> If all that you want to do is have less of these directories (e.g. have them
> all
> use Documents), then you can achieved that by something like:
> xdg-user-dirs-update PICTURES ${HOME}/Documents
>
> (or edit the file ${HOME}/.config/user-dirs.dirs manually).
>
> You can also do this system-wide by editing /etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults.
I'd prefer to disable it altogether :-)
> > And the really, really really annoying new thing is that all new
> > terminals start the shell with cwd ~/Desktop. Where does one get this
> > back to the good ol' home?
>
> This is down to how you saved your session - if you were in that dir when you
> saved the session it will restore there.
I don't save sessions... and I hardly ever go to ~/Desktop in a shell...
> Also, if you are in ${HOME}/Desktop, and then start a new window/tab it will
> use
> the same dir for the new window/tab.
That would be ok, although an option to change that behaviour would be cool.
> Saying that - it *may* be a bug, but the only way to be sure is to get a
> reproducible case.
I just tried a freshly added user and gnome-terminal starts the shell in
~/Desktop
as well. So at least on my box it seems to be a bug since I didn't see that
before
installing vermillion 87.
Bernd
