From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 13 05:09:49 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1722716A400 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 05:09:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from knightbg@yahoo.com) Received: from web32409.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web32409.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.207.202]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BC44313C489 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 05:09:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from knightbg@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 95710 invoked by uid 60001); 13 Jun 2007 05:09:48 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=k2NtPQPnEQh56GF4+Y+HN2lB6G2jyr/9llEO5GffUhUk1dgbyraxnS6rbuyAVYRatspBspyqfaRqgfE6VM+GDgNBMaur9TR9oBrAMs1VTIAXr6pR8dO8Syzq97k3hOisfiL63EuUC3MFHZCw9RZta/zs9fm8IEF2G7NYFouNKG4=; X-YMail-OSG: qYN8CjUVM1n2VhSsN53tdL4S4XYfsyGeVwk3nLD8_lgx8IhohMbjUzmDXBluJ87lAg-- Received: from [72.68.200.211] by web32409.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 22:09:48 PDT Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 22:09:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Gruber To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <247945.95203.qm@web32409.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:41:39 +0000 Subject: gdm and session working directory X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 05:09:49 -0000 This problem is really little more than a pet peeve, but it's been bothering me for a few years now and I'd love to be able to fix it. On my system, /home is a symlink to /usr/home. When I log in to gnome with gdm, my working directory for everything gets set to /usr/home/username. This is annoying because $HOME points to /home/username. therefore, programs don't recognize that they are in my home directory; bash, for example, shows /usr/home/username in my prompt instead of ~. I suppose i could recode $HOME to be /usr/home/username, but that doesn't seem right. any suggestions? /brian ____________________________________________________________________________________ Finding fabulous fares is fun. Let Yahoo! FareChase search your favorite travel sites to find flight and hotel bargains. http://farechase.yahoo.com/promo-generic-14795097