quandary
10-29-2000, 10:49 PM
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?