Ross Burtonhttp://www.burtonini.com/blogA potted account of Ross' lifeen60Ross BurtonDefault Location in GTK+ File Choosercomputers/filesel-2006-02-20-12-30http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/filesel-2006-02-20-12-30Today I finally got annoyed enough with Ubuntu's GTK+ defaulting my file choosers to $HOME/Documents rather than $HOME . I ... Today I finally got annoyed enough with Ubuntu's GTK+ defaulting my file choosers to $HOME/Documents rather than $HOME. I can see how this would be useful, but Documents contains a few files, whereas I generally want to get into ~/Pictures, or ~/Programming. Luckily sebuild saves the day, by telling me about GTK_DEFAULT_FILECHOOSER_DIR. One quick export later:

export GTK_DEFAULT_FILECHOOSER_DIR=$HOME

And voilà, it works. Now please can the comments section of this post not turn into a new GTK file chooser sucks arse d000dz old one r0xkkz. You try explaining to a non-geek why parent folder is .., and why . is in the folder list at all.

NP: Songs In The Key Of Life, Stevie Wonder

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