Silly, odd, total newbie question.

When I start a terminal window in X, instead of it going to my Home folder (matt), it goes to another folder within my official home folder. So I have to type "cd" to get Home (matt). I must have changed this somehow with my endless tinkering.

How do you change your default folder when you start a terminal window, so the opening command line is like:

[matt@localhost whatever_folder_I_want]

???

Much thanks - this site is great.

)M.

Well, it may not be the right way to do it, but you can try the following:

define an alias to your xterm call like that:

alias xterm "xterm -e cd"

The -e option in xterm is a command to be executed in the terminal before opening. It has to be the last option of your call !! So if you decide to change some other options in your alias, do them before.

If you don't know about aliases, please reply to this posting.

I'm sure there is a more efficient way, but I don't know it! I still have things to learn!

Hope this helps!

Cheers!
Andree