[Xquartz-dev] XQuartz 2.8.0_rc2

Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia jeremyhu at apple.com
Tue Mar 9 23:20:12 PST 2021



> On Mar 8, 2021, at 08:03, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa at Freenet.DE> wrote:
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>> Am 27.2.2021 um 22:50 schrieb Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia <jeremyhu at apple.com>:
>> 
>> https://www.xquartz.org/releases/XQuartz-2.8.0_rc2.html
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> The GNU Emacsen I launch from ~/.xinitrc or XTerm have their working directory in / while XTerm's shell sets it to ~.
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> When I launch GNU Emacs from the Applications menu its working directory is ~.

Could you file a bug report for this at https://github.com/XQuartz/XQuartz/issues/new

It should be a simple fix to add a 'cd ~' to the startx script to ensure this is consistent.  We do that in XQuartz.app's startup script, but should probably do the same for startx.

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>  Pete
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