When you click a JAR the current directoy should be that of the JAR, not your home

[Renato Silva]

When I click on a a jar (open it with Java) which reads some external file, it tries to find it under my home instead of the folder where the jar is located (Windows behavior). However, if I run $java -jar app.jar it works.

That is: when you click the jar, you'd expect the current directory being that in front of your face, not anywhere else, like your home.

[hugocanalli (hugocanalli)]

Yes.

I've the same problem.

[Patrick Kilgore (patrick-kilgore)]

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[Renato Silva (renatosilva)]

I'll try it

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[Renato Silva (renatosilva)]

I've verified the issue still happens. When you click a JAR the current folder is your home, and the program has no permission to create a file on it. In console the current dir is wherever you are. I think current dir must be that of the JAR, not anywhere else.

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[Patrick Kilgore (patrick-kilgore)]

Which Java runtime do you have installed?

[Renato Silva (renatosilva)]

Sun Java JRE 6

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Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2008 2:17:19 AM
Subject: [Bug 256670] Re: When you click a JAR the current directoy should be that of the JAR, not your home

Which Java runtime do you have installed?

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[Patrick Kilgore (patrick-kilgore)]

Ok, I'll pass it along to the sun-java folks to handle. I'm not an expert in this area, but you may have to report this bug to sun itself to fix, since I'm not sure how much control we have over Java's source.

Thanks for your report.

[Renato Silva (renatosilva)]

In console the same JRE is running. The JRE just asks for the current directory. The terminal answer seems ok, but Nautilus always says "home".

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Subject: [Bug 256670] Re: When you click a JAR the current directoy should be that of the JAR, not your home

Ok, I'll pass it along to the sun-java folks to handle. I'm not an
expert in this area, but you may have to report this bug to sun itself
to fix, since I'm not sure how much control we have over Java's source.

Thanks for your report.

** Changed in: sun-java6 (Ubuntu)
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** Changed in: sun-java6 (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Confirmed

** Changed in: sun-java6 (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Low

** Changed in: sun-java6 (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Low => Wishlist

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[Renato Silva (renatosilva)]

Bug still reproducible in Karmic! It only works in console mode.

Using Sun Java 1.6.0_16-b01, but I think it's a Nautilus issue.

[Renato Silva (renatosilva)]

Still reproducible in Ubuntu 14.04!