[SOLVED -sort of] Wrong HOME in Guake-Terminal

[viking60]

I came over a strange thing today. It turns out that when you install both Gnome and Kde and log in to KDE and then open the gnome-terminal; it will open with

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[Magic@localhost Documents]$

This apparently also affects the dropdown terminal, Guake ( I have not tested that myself) While Konsole and xterm and urxvt all pop up with the correct home.

The Gnome-terminal behaves correctly in Gnome but not in KDE.

I could not find anything in the errata nor in the bugs.

I guess not many would use gnome-terminal in KDE so this would be a rather marginal problem but Guake is another matter. So I have two questions:

1. Can anyone offer a workaround? (The behavior is already confirmed by another user - so that is taken care of. And I failed to set another path in the terminal settings)
2. Who wants to report the bug

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[saptech]

This is no work around or answer but I have both, Gnome 3 & KDE 4 installed and my gnome terminal opens in the correct directory using KDE.

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[saptech@localhost ~]$ pwd
/home/saptech
[saptech@localhost ~]$

But another quirk I am noticing, when I open gnome terminal in KDE, it opens in the top left corner and shrink itself. By that I mean it shrinks with about 2-3 rows instead of opening at a normal size.

First time noticing this.

[doktor5000]

But another quirk I am noticing, when I open gnome terminal in KDE, it opens in the top left corner and shrink itself.

Same for me, and the effect is quite funny, watching it shrink
It also opens at $HOME for me - but i remember a colleague at work having the same problem (RHEL -> switched to KDE) and he just changed
the starter to no start konsole/terminal directly but to run konsole /home/username [or ~ if that works for a starter, can't remember exactly and can't look, currently on vacation])

[viking60]

Yes that shrinking effect is so cool that we must accept that as a feature The shrinking happens in Arch too..
Strange tho that the home error does not occur consistently. I checked; and the very same error happens in Mandriva 2010 too - I discovered it today after all these years...

[martinw]

I've not got KDE installed, so can't test this, but a possible workaround would be to tick the "Run command as a login shell" option in the gnome-terminal profile editor, then put a 'cd $HOME' in your $HOME/.login script.

[viking60]

I tried that - no luck

[doktor5000]

As i wrote, you should be able to call gnome-terminal with the full path, just write it behind the command. Does that help?

[viking60]

I ticked the wrong area (Hard to translate English to Norwegian ) so yes the Gnome terminal works when the path is entered in .login
Thanks guys!
But the real hurd here is Guake since that terminal is more likely to be used in KDE. I need to find a similar method for that one.
Edit:
It looks like the result was cluttered by byobu - when I deactivate it the good ol Documents is back
Grr I just found out that doing a cd is way easier than this, in guake. The gnome-terminal should be replaced by konsole in kde anyway.
(Giving up )

[isadora]

Big viking-friend, will you please re-touch the title of this topic???
Big thanks in return!!!

[doktor5000]

The gnome-terminal should be replaced by konsole in kde anyway.

Well, isn't the question more why you use gnome-terminal under KDE?

[viking60]

The "big" issue is Guake (but I cannot get that to work in VB so I used the terminal). But I see your point, so I changed the header to Guake (They both have the same problem).
After some checking I found a bug report:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=302903

So this will go away when KDE gets updated I guess. I will change the status to solved -sort of. Finding a workaround is not worth the effort.
Most terminals behave just fine Guake and Gnome-terminal do not - this only appears in KDE so I guess it is KDE related. I do not use KDE on a daily basis so.....