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VaguelyUseful

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Applications starting in ~/Desktop [Resolved]

I'm having an issue with all my applications starting up in ~/Desktop for no apparent reason.

Terminals start in this directory, and I thought it might be an XDG thing, but my file managers are also doing it (ROX and Thunar) with no arguments.

This is a pretty fresh install, only a few weeks old, and I'm not exactly sure when it started doing this or if it was doing this from the start, but it's getting pretty annoying.

I've check in all of the bash_profile and bashrc in /etc and ~/, no environment variables specify it, I'm at a loss...

I'm using XFCE if that matters.

Here's this if it helps...

[dave@escape Desktop]$ printenv
XDG_VTNR=1
SSH_AGENT_PID=1060
XDG_SESSION_ID=6
GPG_AGENT_INFO=/tmp/gpg-Nmr7wT/S.gpg-agent:1060:1
GLADE_PIXMAP_PATH=:
TERM=xterm
SHELL=/bin/bash
XDG_MENU_PREFIX=xfce-
WINDOWID=27943639
GTK_MODULES=canberra-gtk-module
USER=dave
XDG_SESSION_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Session2
GLADE_MODULE_PATH=:
XDG_SEAT_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Seat0
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/gpg-mw9xkp/S.gpg-agent.ssh
SESSION_MANAGER=local/escape:@/tmp/.ICE-unix/1054,unix/escape:/tmp/.ICE-unix/1054
MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH=/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/etc/xdg
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/core_perl
MAIL=/var/spool/mail/dave
DESKTOP_SESSION=xfce
LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
PWD=/home/dave/Desktop
EDITOR=vim
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
GDMSESSION=xfce
HISTCONTROL=ignoredups
XDG_SEAT=seat0
HOME=/home/dave
SHLVL=2
GTK_PATH=:/usr/lib/gtk-2.0
LOGNAME=dave
XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/local/share:/usr/share
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-lBtVJaj82d,guid=33ceb3732c751bca54d46c7e53424eac
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1026
DISPLAY=:0.0
GLADE_CATALOG_PATH=:
COLORTERM=xfce4-terminal
XAUTHORITY=/home/dave/.Xauthority
_=/usr/bin/printenv

Any help on the matter would be appreciated.

Thanks

Last edited by VaguelyUseful (2014-04-13 01:37:42)

HalosGhost

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Re: Applications starting in ~/Desktop [Resolved]

Well, something is setting PWD to be /home/dave/Desktop.

Whatever's doing that is likely to be your issue.

All the best,

-HG

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VaguelyUseful

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Re: Applications starting in ~/Desktop [Resolved]

PWD is the current directory. That's the directory that I ran that command from (because I didn't cd out of it when I started up the terminal), and it'll change when I change directories.

HalosGhost

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Re: Applications starting in ~/Desktop [Resolved]

PWD is the current directory. That's the directory that I ran that command from (because I didn't cd out of it when I started up the terminal), and it'll change when I change directories.

Paste (into code blocks) your shell RCs and /etc/profile, if you wouldn't mind.

All the best,

-HG

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VaguelyUseful

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Re: Applications starting in ~/Desktop [Resolved]

After no luck with the Google, I renamed the directory from Desktop to Desktop2, opened up a file manager, and it defaulted to Desktop2... which was really strange, especially since Desktop was automatically recreated by xdg... so I deleted the Desktop2 directory and started a file manager again, which defaulted to /, which is also strange...

I then rebooted the computer and it is working as it should now... I still have no idea what caused it or what I did to  fix it.

Anyway... it is resolved? for now...