Bug 75446 - --working-directory option doesn't work
Summary: --working-directory option doesn't work
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Status: CLOSED DEFERRED
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: gnome-terminal
Version: 8.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Havoc Pennington
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-10-08 18:08 UTC by snikhi1
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-10-08 18:08:11 UTC
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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.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


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.

Additional info:
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.
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