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kwevej

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Registered: 2011-07-31

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moved user's home folder; Thunar opens at the old location [solved]

Hello,

I've moved my user's home directory, the old one still exists.
Now, when I run terminal via a shortcut, it opens at the old location. For thunar, it is the same.
I haven't been able to find where to configure that.

Any thoughts?
Thank you in advance

Last edited by kwevej (2011-08-13 15:53:23)

Nick

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Re: moved user's home folder; Thunar opens at the old location [solved]

Does useredit know about the new location? I think this was set in /etc/passwd.

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kwevej

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Re: moved user's home folder; Thunar opens at the old location [solved]

actually what I did was:

I've created a new user with a different name;
Copied the content of old users home to the new location

in /etc/passwd  the home location is fine

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Re: moved user's home folder; Thunar opens at the old location [solved]

Maybe Xfce is not 'started' in the home directory.

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kwevej

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Re: moved user's home folder; Thunar opens at the old location [solved]

I start it by:

#!/bin/sh
#
# ~/.xinitrc
#
# Executed by startx (run your window manager from here)

if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ]; then
  for f in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/*; do
    [ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
  done
  unset f
fi

exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch --exit-with-session startxfce4

kwevej

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Re: moved user's home folder; Thunar opens at the old location [solved]

So, I've removed the old directory and it works fine now.
Dunno why, but it works.