On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 11:56:58AM -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > When I gvim a file from gnome, > gvim's working directory is always my home directory. > [snip] > I am looking for a way to give gvim the correct working directory. > Is this a gnome thing? No, it's not a GNOME thing. I assume you're opening up gvim from a menu? Then your current working directory is $HOME. That's the way unix/linux works when you start a program and your CWD is $HOME. The graphical interface has a CWD of $HOME, so anything it forks will too. -- Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>