Re: when an xterm starts, it always starts in ~/Documents

[Sian Mountbatten <poenikatu@fastmail.co.uk>]

On 26/02/12 17:30, Camaleón wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 01:59:16 +0000, Sian Mountbatten wrote:
>
> > Whenever I start an xterm, I notice that it starts in ~/Documents rather
> > than in the home directory. Why is that? Where is it set?
> >
> > And can it be set to the HOME directory?
>
> Weird... are you running xterm inside GNOME or KDE session? Have you
> tried with another console (gnome-terminal or konsole)? Does the same
> happen when you go fall to init 1 from a tty and run xterm from there?
>
> It could be that some environmental variable is taking preference over
> xterm settings but I'm running GNOME in up-to-date testing and this is
> not happening here :-?
>
> Greetings,
I'm running KDE on a siduction distribution. Konsole starts in $HOME. 
Xterms started from the KDE Launcher->System->Uxterm or Xterm start in 
~/Documents. There's nothing in the environment which mentions 
~/Documents. I've been through all the KDE settings and there's no 
mention of it. It is definitely weird.