Re: [opensuse] Changing users temp folder

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 :(

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