Re: Directory always defaults to /usr/bin

[Bob McGowan <rmcgowan@veritas.com>]

Kent, if the reason for your "default" directory is as Nate suggests,
the next level of explanation is that, unless you take some action in
the script at startup, it will use the current directory as its
"default".

As a first cut at "fixing" this, you can edit the 'startx' script in
/usr/bin/X11 so the first line executed is 'cd $HOME', forcing the
script and all applications it starts to use the user's home directory
as the current one.

Nate Amsden wrote:
> 
> i've only had this happen when i ran 'startx' from somewhere other then
> my home dir, in which case all x apps will default to the dir you ran
> 'startx' in.
> 
> nate
> 
> Kent Pirkle wrote:
> >
> > I've noticed that all my applications will default to /usr/bin
> > instead of the /home/kmp directory that they should default to.
> >
> > Netscape, Gnome-apps, virtually any application that opens an
> > application to save or load something does this.
> >
> > Any ideas how I can change this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Kent
> >
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