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Acrobat starts always with ~ as the working directory. Because I keep all my pdf files in a seperate directory, I have to do quite some navigation before I can save them. This is especially bad as the Acrobat save as window displays all files including hidden files. Thus I would like Acrobat to use always ~/Documents/pdf as working directory. The .desktop file specification defines for Type=Application the entry Path= which is supposed to define the working directory.

I bought the boxed version of Suse Linux 9.1. The update went quite smoothly. Although it reported about 1500 package conflicts, they were all just consequences of kopete 0.81 (my icq client) and vlc 0.71 (my video player). I resolved the conflicts by first unprotecting the non-Suse packages that I had installed and then risking system inconsistencies. However, after the update both kopete and vlc still functioned. On the other hand VMWare 4.0.5 broke but updating to 4.5.1 helped.

So far I never was able to run a Windows XP guest OS from a raw disk partition using Linux VMWare. Here's the discussion thread. I guess coLinux will rescue me sooner or later. OK. Now I got it working: The user who runs vmware must be a member of the "disk" group to have access to the partition where XP is installed. Then I downloaded the GAG boot loader disk image from http://gag.sourceforge.net.