Run dialog (Alt-F2) fails to expand tilde (~) into home
Bug #664592 reported by
Jani Uusitalo
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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GNOME Panel |
New
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Medium
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gnome-panel (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: gnome-panel
I'm running a Lucid desktop, but with UNE as the interface.
In UNIX, the tilde character ~ usually refers to the user's home directory. However, the run dialog doesn't seem to support this.
Steps to reproduce:
1. In a terminal:
$ echo "hello" > ~/foo
$ cat ~/foo
hello
2. Press Alt+F2 to bring up the run dialog. Enter:
gedit ~/foo
Expected result: have ~/foo open in gedit with the content "hello".
Actual result: a file called foo opens, but it's empty and obviously not the one created. From gedit's title I'm guessing the run dialog passes ~ as the name of a directory residing within the actual ~, user's home.
Changed in gnome-panel: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in gnome-panel (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
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Just a note that this no longer happens now that I'm running 12.04 with Unity; Unity's run dialog expands tilde correctly. Still broken in Gnome panel 3.2.0 though.