Bug 76529 - gnome-terminal option --working-directory doesn't work
Summary: gnome-terminal option --working-directory doesn't work
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: gnome-terminal
Version: 8.0
Hardware: i586
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Havoc Pennington
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Blocks: 79579
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-10-22 20:34 UTC by matteo porta
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:38 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2003-01-08 05:59:02 UTC
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My patch to fix this. Put as patch 6 in the RH 8.0 gnome-terminal src.rpm (1011 bytes, patch)
2002-11-13 00:34 UTC, Jonathan Briggs 		no flags Details | Diff
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Description matteo porta 2002-10-22 20:34:56 UTC 
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Description of problem:
in the gnome-terminal program the --working-directory doesn't work at all! (i
need it to add a nautilus script to open the terminal in the dir currently
showed in nautilus).

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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run gnome-terminal --working-directory=<somedir>
2. it open in the user's home.
3.
	

Additional info:
Comment 1 Jonathan Briggs 2002-11-13 00:34:05 UTC 
Created attachment 84744 [details]
My patch to fix this.  Put as patch 6 in the RH 8.0 gnome-terminal src.rpm
Comment 2 Havoc Pennington 2003-01-08 05:59:02 UTC 
Can you explain the patch and why it's required? Looks like a workaround 
for a vte bug.

It does seem to work fine in latest rawhide though, so perhaps it was fixed.
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