Re: Changing starting directory for video players

[Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com>]

On 05/02/2015 07:17 AM, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> On 2015-05-01, Edward C. Jones <edcjones@comcast.net> wrote:
> > I use Debian 8.0 (Jessie), amd64 port, and KDE.
> >
> > Dragon Player has starting directory: ~Videos.
> > VLC has starting directory: ~
> > KPlayer starts at the last directory used.
> > KMPlayer starts at ~/Documents.
> >
> > How do I change the starting directory for these video players? Which
> > config files contain this information?
>
> There is a freedesktop standard covering this area[0]. It is implemented
> in the Debian packages xdg-user-dirs and xdg-user-dirs-gtk. There is no
> guarantee that all applications will respect the standard, of course,
> but it should help you to achieve at least some consistency among them.
VLC starts, for me, at the last directory I used it in. That has been 
handy. Ric

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