On Sunday 31 December 2006 13:25, Mike Noble wrote:
On Saturday 30 December 2006 17:58, Jeffery Fernandez wrote:
Hi,
I was wondering if its possible to change the users temp folder location from /tmp to ~/tmp ?
When I was using mandriva I was used to having my tmp folder within my home directory. This way when I download a file which happens to be a pdf and gets opened by an other application like kpdf, the file gets stored in my ~/tmp folder than the systems tmp folder.
This is advantages for the user to just go to their home/tmp folder to save any files they download to an other location rather than navigating back to the root of the file system to fetch the document from /tmp
I don't know what dis-advantages it would have by being in the users home directory. On the other hand having it store the temp files under /tmp is a privacy issue I would think.
Jeffery
set the ENV variable to be:
TMPDIR=~/tmp
In looking at my env, it shows:
TMPDIR=/tmp
I have not tested it so YMMV.
Mike
nope that doesn't work for me :( -- Powered by openSUSE 10.2 (i586) Kernel: 2.6.18.2-34-default KDE: 3.5.5 "release 45" 1:38pm up 2 days 20:23, 3 users, load average: 0.23, 0.38, 0.49