Terminal opens in Documents

repo · 02-05-2011, 01:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Smokey_justme

First of all can you tell me what are you using for your teminal. Are you using "konsole", "xterm", "xconsole" or do you mean an actual terminal (by pressing CTRL + ALT +F[1-6] keys from the KDE desktop)?

I use "terminal emulator" in KDE
xterm has the same problem.
konsole gives the correct path /home/repo

Kind regards

Smokey_justme · 02-05-2011, 02:25 AM

It seems like this is the default behavior for "xterm".

The simplest way to override this without modifying your default "Documents" path (that might cause annoyances in xfce programs) is to create or edit the "~/.bashrc" file and append to it the following code:

Code:

if [ "$TERM" = "xterm" ]; then
cd ~
fi

qweasd · 02-05-2011, 04:23 AM

I wrote about this before: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...uments-831815/

This actually feels like a bug (feature?) in KDE. xterm is blameless: this affects every program you start from KDE, either via Alt-F2 or via a shortcut with empty work path setting. Konsole cheats by having its very own setting, so it basically cds when you start it. I guess, changing the work path of your terminal may be a better workaround. I changed Documents location because I don't use that folder at all.