[ale] Mint login question

[Asher Vilensky]

A followup to close the thread:

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=55&t=36003&p=207698&e=207698

I'm not convinced this is the complete or ideal solution/workaround.  To me
it sound this can be modified in a config file somewhere.  But I can't find
it.  I eventually just used a workaround and placed a terminal shortcut in
the bottom panel.  Oh well, life's a compromise.

-- Asher


On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Tim Watts <timtw at earthlink.net> wrote:

> 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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