How do I get GNU screen not to start in my home directory in OS X?
- by Benjamin Oakes
GNU Screen (screen) behaves differently on OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and 10.6 (Snow Leopard) compared to Linux (at least Ubuntu, Red Hat, and Gentoo) and OS X 10.4 (Tiger). In 10.5 and 10.6, new screens (made with screen or ^A c) always places me in my home directory ~. In Linux and OS X Tiger, new screens have a pwd of wherever the screen was created originally.
Made up examples to illustrate what I mean:
Tiger:
$ cd ~/foo
$ pwd
/Users/ben/foo
$ screen
$ pwd
/Users/ben/foo
$ screen # or ^A c
$ pwd
/Users/ben/foo
Leopard, Snow Leopard:
$ cd ~/foo
$ pwd
/Users/ben/foo
$ screen
$ pwd
/Users/ben
$ screen # or ^A c
$ pwd
/Users/ben
How do I get Leopard and Snow Leopard to behave like Tiger used to?
