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



On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 09:12:23 -0600, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:

> On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:12:53 +0000 (UTC) Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 07:37:46 -0500, Tom H wrote:
>> 
>> > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Have you tried with falling into init 1 (no X server and so no KDE)
>> >> and issue "xterm" from there?
>> > 
>> > No X, no xterm. :(
>> 
>> Ouch!
>> 
>> Cannot be run without the X part? :-?
> ----------
> cybe@wizardstower:~$ dict xterm
(...) 
> Seriously, when not in an X windowing session one is already at the
> terminal.  What Earthly use would an xterm be?

Well, for this specific case, to check if there's an environment variable 
overriding xterm's default starting folder.

Greetings,
-- 
Camaleón


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