Bug 75446

Summary:	--working-directory option doesn't work
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	snikhi1
Component:	gnome-terminal	Assignee:	Havoc Pennington <hp>
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Description snikhi1 2002-10-08 18:08:05 UTC

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Description of problem:
--working-directory option in gnome-terminal doesn't work. Trying to set it to
some directory value doesn't change PWD in the newly opened terminal.The
directory is set to users home directory.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Run: gnome-terminal --working-directory=/tmp or 

gnome-terminal --working-directory /tmp

Actual Results:  New terminal opens with current directory set to user's home
directory

Expected Results:  the current directory set to the passed value.

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Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2002-10-08 18:41:50 UTC

Moving this bug to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95205

Closing here so there aren't two copies floating around.