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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko Galeon/2.0.5 Description of problem: I'm automatically starting a "gnome-terminal -e screen" when my session begins, and the CWD of the resulting gnome-terminal is /. Every time I press "ctrl-a c" to create new shell in that screen, that shell is CWD-defaulted to /. Bad. -_- screen inherits default CWD from parent process, and so does gnome-terminal, so i guess the problem's in gnome-session. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-session(0:2.22.1.1-1.fc9).x86_64 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. gnome-session-properties 2. Click on add then name: foo, command: gnome-terminal, comment: whatever 3. Valid the new entry 4. Close gnome-session-properies 5. logout 6. login through gdm. Actual Results: gnome-terminal opens and CWD at opening is / Expected Results: default current working directory should be $HOME. Additional info: CWD of gnome-terminal started from gnome-panel is $HOME.
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Not sure whether it's related or not, but I saw the same reported problem on one of my Scientific Linux 6.2 installs -- gnome terminal always started in the root directory. When I logged in at the one of the virtual text terminals (CTRL-ALT-F2), I saw an error message about not being able to change to my home directory. I checked, and the SELinux context on my home dir looked correct. So I put SELinux in permissive mode, and from then on, the problem was solved.