From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6726@bellsouth.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] evince / firefox will not print to a specific directory
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 19:56:15 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <629638.65860.bm@smtp101.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> (raw)
> That is interesting. I have the exact same problem. Tried to save it to the
> desktop and it saved to my home directory.On the second try I typed in the
> directory that I wanted to save the file. Instead of "output.pdf", I put
> "/home/ill/Desktop/output.pdf".
> It's not a fix but it works.
I think you can use ~ for your home directory.
Thus, if your login name is ill,
~/Desktop/output.pdf
I do that with Firefox and Seamonkey, since I have many subdirectories for different purposes.
I never or hardly ever use ~/Desktop .
I think this works generally in Linux and BSD.
Tom
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