I am a died in the wool commadn line user. I have just installed
Debian Bookworm on my laptop in place of xubuntu. The installation
went pretty smoothly and now I'm configuring things the way I want
them.

I **hate** icons on the desktop and I just want to be in $HOME when I
log in. So I have configured ~/.config/user-dirs.drs so none of the
things like ~/Music and ~/Pictures are created, so far so good. I have
also set things so that my 'desktop' directory isn't ~/Desktop, it's
~/.desktop which is invisible. I have absolutely no need or use for a
desktop directory.

However, when I start a terminal it starts in ~/.desktop, I want it to
start in ~. Does anyone know where that gets set? I certainly had
XFCE configured in xubuntu so that terminals started in ~ so I think
it must be possible in Debian.


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On 25/10/2024 19:58, Chris Green wrote:

I am a died in the wool commadn line user. I have just installed
Debian Bookworm on my laptop in place of xubuntu. The installation
went pretty smoothly and now I'm configuring things the way I want
them.

I **hate** icons on the desktop and I just want to be in $HOME when I
log in. So I have configured ~/.config/user-dirs.drs so none of the
things like ~/Music and ~/Pictures are created, so far so good. I have
also set things so that my 'desktop' directory isn't ~/Desktop, it's ~/.desktop which is invisible. I have absolutely no need or use for a desktop directory.

However, when I start a terminal it starts in ~/.desktop, I want it to
start in ~. Does anyone know where that gets set? I certainly had
XFCE configured in xubuntu so that terminals started in ~ so I think
it must be possible in Debian.

What happens if you append "cd ~." to .bashrc ?

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Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> wrote:

I am a died in the wool commadn line user. I have just installed
Debian Bookworm on my laptop in place of xubuntu. The installation
went pretty smoothly and now I'm configuring things the way I want
them.

I **hate** icons on the desktop and I just want to be in $HOME when I
log in. So I have configured ~/.config/user-dirs.drs so none of the
things like ~/Music and ~/Pictures are created, so far so good. I have
also set things so that my 'desktop' directory isn't ~/Desktop, it's ~/.desktop which is invisible. I have absolutely no need or use for a desktop directory.

However, when I start a terminal it starts in ~/.desktop, I want it to
start in ~. Does anyone know where that gets set? I certainly had
XFCE configured in xubuntu so that terminals started in ~ so I think
it must be possible in Debian.

Oops, sorry, this was supposed to go to the Debian list. ... and
anyway I have discovered the answer. If I click on the bacground I
get a terminal in $HOME/.desktop (as it should be) but if I just start
a terminal from the menu it's in $HOME as I would expect.

Sorry for the noise!

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mm0fmf <none@invalid.com> wrote:

On 25/10/2024 19:58, Chris Green wrote:

I am a died in the wool commadn line user. I have just installed
Debian Bookworm on my laptop in place of xubuntu. The installation
went pretty smoothly and now I'm configuring things the way I want
them.

I **hate** icons on the desktop and I just want to be in $HOME when I
log in. So I have configured ~/.config/user-dirs.drs so none of the
things like ~/Music and ~/Pictures are created, so far so good. I have
also set things so that my 'desktop' directory isn't ~/Desktop, it's ~/.desktop which is invisible. I have absolutely no need or use for a desktop directory.

However, when I start a terminal it starts in ~/.desktop, I want it to start in ~. Does anyone know where that gets set? I certainly had
XFCE configured in xubuntu so that terminals started in ~ so I think
it must be possible in Debian.

What happens if you append "cd ~." to .bashrc ?

That might work but it shouldn't be necessary and, anyway, I want
"start terminal here" to do what it says.

However see my reply, this was the wrong list and I've realised my
original mistake. :-)

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