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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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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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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In article (Dans l'article) <ib6tuk-a6i1.ln1@q957.zbmc.eu>, Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> wrote (écrivait) :

However, when I start a terminal it starts in ~/.desktop, I want it to
start in ~. Does anyone know where that gets set?

The HOME directory is in /etc/passwd.
Example:

user:x:1000:1000:User:/home/user:/bin/bash.

- man usermod:
The usermod command modifies the system account files.

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On Sat, 26 Oct 2024 15:09:25 +0200, Jean-Pierre Kuypers wrote:

In article (Dans l'article) <ib6tuk-a6i1.ln1@q957.zbmc.eu>, Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> wrote (écrivait) :

However, when I start a terminal it starts in ~/.desktop, I want it to
start in ~. Does anyone know where that gets set?

The HOME directory is in /etc/passwd.

That is already the value of “~”.

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