irritating Gnome problem solved

[quandary]

Somehow Gnome got it into its head to switch my default write path from my home directory to a read-only directory. Every time I opened an xterm, tried to download something in Netscape, etc., I had to manually switch back over to my ~/username directory. Not a major problem, but annoying....Anyway I searched the deja.com archives and the boards here and nobody else had ever seemed to have this trouble, and being an ignoramus I was racking my brains trying to figure out exactly how to change this. Finally I just logged in as root, changed the name of the directory that Gnome had taken as its default, restarted X, and presto, the problem was solved (even after I then switched that directory's name back to its original one). Anyway, problem solved, but can anyone tell me what a more proper way of resolving this would have been?

[jesterspet]

quandary,

Where did you change the name of the directory that Gnome had taken as it's default?

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[Sterling]

jesterspet - From what I can tell, he moved the directory somewhere else (renamed it, if you will). Then he started GNOME. Not finding that directory, it reset things to the default wherever GNOME stores such things. (The GNOME config files aren't nice to poke around in) Finally, once he'd saved session or whatever, he replaced the directory in its original location.

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-Sterling
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