[ale] Mint login question

[Tim Watts]

Sounds like it might be a setting on the desktop or menu link used to
invoke it?

On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 09:42 -0500, Asher Vilensky wrote:
> 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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