[ale] Mint login question

[Asher Vilensky]

Yes, I suspect X too.  But I can't find it.  When I 'su' to another user, it
dumps me in the right $HOME directory.  When I further 'su -' back to root
it also dumps me at $HOME.  It's only when I open a terminal window that it
puts me at $HOME/Desktop.  It behaves the same for all users, so it's some
global setting, that strangely overrides personal *bash* files.

-- Asher


On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> what does /etc/passwd show for the home dir?
>
> It may also be quirk of your X environment since you are opening a
> terminal.
>
> Check /etc/profile and /etc/bashrc for defaults.
>
> strange.
>
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Asher Vilensky
> <ashervilensky at gmail.com> wrote:
> > When I login into my Mint VM as root and open a terminal, it puts me in
> > /root/Desktop and not in /root.  Why?
> > It doesn't read my .bashrc or .bash_profile (both of which didn't
> exist...I
> > created them).  Why?
> > What is the file .dmrc?  Should it be changed?  To what?
> >
> >         [root at asher-laptop ~]# cat .dmrc
> >
> >
> >         [Desktop]
> >         Session=default
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > -- Asher
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