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Open files with CWD equals to the current directory
Status:
RESOLVED: FIXED
Priority:
Medium
Severity:
enhancement
Product:
Thunar
Component:
Core

Comments

Description Yves-Alexis Perez editbugs 2009-10-06 06:03:08 CEST 
Hey,

when I run a file from thunar, the application is opened with CWD sets to $HOME. Would it make sense to change CWD to the folder currently open in Thunar?

That would (for example) enables users to double click on a movie file in Thunar and have vlc correctly see the .srt (subtitles) files which are side by side to the movie file.

What do you think?
Comment 1 Jannis Pohlmann editbugs 2010-01-24 11:08:49 CET 
Absolutely. This has been annoying me too. Unfortunately, GAppInfo doesn't support setting the working directory when launching applications:

  http://www.mail-archive.com/gtk-list@gnome.org/msg27356.html

I'm not really happy about this situation myself to be honest.
Comment 2 Nick Schermer editbugs 2012-09-27 21:47:19 CEST 
This was fixed in c70f431334ab8256087f43813240ce01cd028f34.

Bug #5823

Reported by:
Yves-Alexis Perez
Reported on: 2009-10-06
Last modified on: 2012-09-27

People

Assignee:
Jannis Pohlmann
CC List:
2 users

Version

Version:
1.0.1
Target Milestone:
1.2.0

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