Hello.

I am running CentOS 6.2 with gnome2.

I've created a keyboard shortcut (through System->Preferences->Keyboard shortcuts) to open an instance of gnome-terminal.

This works fine, and gnome-terminal starts just fine.

However, it starts up in / where as I want it to start in my /home directory, which it does when I start the terminal from the shortcut in Applications->System tools->Terminal.

How can I do this? I've examined the contents of the .desktop file for the shortcut, and it just starts gnome-terminal without any arguments. When I start gnome-terminal without any arguments with the keyboard shortcut, it starts in /.

You can edit ~/.bashrc to add at the end. This will then open all new terminals in your home directory.

Or to just to it for those terminals launched from your shortcut, change the shortcut to:

Thank you.

the --working-directory was precisely what I was looking for. As you mentioned, this was valid only for terminal started through the keyboard shortcut, as all terminals launched from elsewhere would indeed start in ~.