Bug 506348

Summary: Konsole: Fedora Kinoite Incorrect Start Directory
Product: [Applications] konsole Reporter: Osama Albahrani <osalbahr>
Component: generalAssignee: Konsole Developer <konsole-devel>
Status: RESOLVED DOWNSTREAM    
Severity: normal CC: filip.kendes1
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 25.04.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Fedora RPMs   
OS: Linux   
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Description Osama Albahrani 2025-06-29 15:05:12 UTC 
SUMMARY

The start directory in Konsole in Fedora Kinoite is incorrect. It should be `/home/<user>`, not `/var/home/<user>`.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Install Fedora Kinoite
2. Open Konsole
3. Observe the PWD

OBSERVED RESULT

<user>@fedora:/var/home/<user>$ 

EXPECTED RESULT

<user>@fedora:~$ 

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Fedora Linux 42
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.1
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.15.0
Qt Version: 6.9.1
Kernel Version: 6.15.3-200.fc42.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-7700HQ CPU @ 2.80GHz
Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (15.5 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor 1: Intel® HD Graphics 630
Graphics Processor 2: llvmpipe

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Since `/home` is a symlink to `var/home`, this is merely a cosmetic issue.

$ ls -ld /home
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 8 Dec 31  1969 /home -> var/home
Comment 1 Osama Albahrani 2025-06-29 17:20:07 UTC 
I want to add that the home directory is set correctly to `/home/<user>` in both `$HOME` and `/etc/passwd`.
Comment 2 Osama Albahrani 2025-06-29 18:43:42 UTC 
I just created a new user and the home is in /var/home. This bug report might be related: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/the-home-directory/35482
Comment 3 Filip 2025-06-30 11:27:55 UTC 
This  should be issue on the Fedora side and it looks like the bug is already reported.
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/the-home-directory/35482