[ale] Mint login question

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Mon Nov 16 16:15:28 EST 2009


what does /etc/passwd show for the home dir?

It may also be quirk of your X environment since you are opening a terminal.

Check /etc/profile and /etc/bashrc for defaults.

strange.

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Asher Vilensky
<ashervilensky at gmail.com> wrote:
> When I login into my Mint VM as root and open a terminal, it puts me in
> /root/Desktop and not in /root.  Why?
> It doesn't read my .bashrc or .bash_profile (both of which didn't exist...I
> created them).  Why?
> What is the file .dmrc?  Should it be changed?  To what?
>
>         [root at asher-laptop ~]# cat .dmrc
>
>
>         [Desktop]
>         Session=default
>
> Thanks.
>
> -- Asher
>
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