From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Use emacs.desktop when starting emacs from a particular directory Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2018 17:20:55 -0400 Message-ID: References: <86pnvolrgq.fsf@dod.no> <83muqshcoq.fsf@gnu.org> <86ftwjl23x.fsf@dod.no> <86bm77kx0y.fsf@dod.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1541193606 31334 195.159.176.226 (2 Nov 2018 21:20:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2018 21:20:06 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 02 22:20:02 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gIgrI-0007yX-2X for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2018 22:20:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53466 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gIgtN-0007jp-Qv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2018 17:22:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34205) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gIgsp-0007jV-0s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2018 17:21:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gIgsb-0003hh-0q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2018 17:21:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=39470 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gIgsV-0003bQ-HR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2018 17:21:16 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gIgqB-0006oO-Fj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2018 22:18:51 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:HQ7XM9LlWADgIl451sGGZemN8Ek= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:118564 Archived-At: >> maybe try: >> - exit Emacs >> - mv ~/.emacs.d/.emacs.desktop ~/workspaces/ >> - start Emacs > It didn't work, unfortunately. > Emacs doesn't use the ~/workspaces/.emacs.desktop and creates a new > ~/.emacs.d/.emacs.desktop Can you figure out *when*? AFAIK Emacs's desktop normally doesn't choose a desktop file for the user, it should always prompt (or reuse an existing file). So the behavior you describe doesn't match my expectation. Could it be that you set `desktop-dirname` somewhere in your customization (maybe in the desktop file itself)? Stefan