Re: [XBoard-devel] [solved] save position dialog box

[H.G. Muller]

Chris Bannister schreef op 1/29/2015 om 2:16 PM:
> OK, I found the solution
>
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/63202/can-i-stop-apps-from-selecting-recently-used-by-default-in-file-chooser-dialog
>
> I changed the setting in the '.config/gtk-2.0/gtkfilechooser.ini' file
> from 'StartupMode=recent' to 'StartupMode=cwd' and voila! it is now
> working the way I want. \o/
>
> Not an xboard issue, but handy to know for the archives.
OK, great. I already suspected it had to be some general systems 
setting, but I don't know Linux well enough to know what.
In any case this explains how the behavior for you could be so different 
from the XBoard behavior for me.
Future XBoards will unfortunately still depends on this setting, despite 
my attempt to let them start in the directory
that was last used for files of the sought type: it does this by 
changing directory to the remembered directory before
invoking the file selector dialog. I don't know if there exists a better 
way to force the file chooser to start in a certain
directory. Perhaps there is, and then we should switch to using that.
> Unfortunately it looks like GTK3 doesn't have that option. :(