That because your users home folder is My Documents Try this: make another user with the home dir you wish to store graphics in Use the KDE menu editor go to the entry for gimp tell it to run gimp as the new user you will go through the setup again and it will rebuild the .gimp files for the new user
On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 09:52:47 -0400 - joel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the following Re: Gimp: Opening files with long path names >With my current version of gimp (1.3), when you try to open a file, the >default directory is always ~/My Documents >This means that if you are working with files in a directory with a long >path name, like: >~/Network/HAMMER10/public/disks/hdc5/Pictures/MaineVac >you have to work your way through the whole directory structure to open >one file. Opening a second file in the same directory makes you walk >through the whole file structure again. That is, Gimp doesn't seem to >remember the last directory you were working in. >I cannot find any configuration file for gimp which would change this >behavior. >cd ~/.gimp-1.3 >find . | grep Documents >shows nothing of interest. >Doing the same thing in /etc/gimp/1.3 shows nothing. >The command for starting gimp (gimp-1.3) is not a script, but the binary >itself, so nothing to tweak there. >However, >strings gimp-1.3 | grep Documents shows this: >~/My Documents/ >So, it looks like they have compiled this directory into the binary. >If you go to the directory with the file browser and click on it, this >saves walking repeatedly through the file structure, but, you have to >choose each time if you want to open with gimp-1.3 or gimp-remote-1.3, >not very convenient. >I could edit the binary to point to a symbolic link, but that seems >excessive. >Any insights appreciated. >Joel >P.S. Please don't suggest getting the source and recompiling. I am >really into this Debian thing. apt-get install is habit forming. > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Linux-users mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> >http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
