Re: [gentoo-user] evince / firefox will not print to a specific directory

[Thomas Mueller]

> 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