From: Owen W. Taylor Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 14:44:22 +0000 (-0400) Subject: Change to $HOME before launching gnome-panel again X-Git-Tag: archive/raspbian/50.5-1+rpi1~1^2~1013^2^2~11135 X-Git-Url: https://dgit.raspbian.org/%22http://www.example.com/cgi/%22/%22http:/www.example.com/cgi/%22?a=commitdiff_plain;h=464842ea36e88de94135609fcdfdfe3240e64076;p=gnome-shell.git Change to $HOME before launching gnome-panel again When exiting from --replace mode, we want to start the new gnome-panel with a reasonable working directory so that if, you say, open a terminal from it it doesn't start off in the gnome-shell directory. (gnome-shell itself is running in $HOME because mutter changes directory itself at startup.) Reported by Mathieu Bridon http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=591145 --- diff --git a/src/gnome-shell.in b/src/gnome-shell.in index 12a607f97..ebb0f3957 100644 --- a/src/gnome-shell.in +++ b/src/gnome-shell.in @@ -301,6 +301,11 @@ finally: if not run_in_xephyr: # Restart gnome-panel and window manager + + # We don't want to start the new gnome-panel in the current + # directory; $HOME is better for stuff launched from it + os.chdir(os.path.expanduser("~")) + if metacity_pid: if options.verbose: print "Restarting Metacity"