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I finally made the leap to doing most of my research on computers that run on Linux. The distribution I’m using is Ubuntu. So far I’ve found it quite good. One thing I do frequently is open a Terminal (command) window in a specific directory. However, when you open the Terminal, it by default opens in your home directory. You can create a shortcut to open it in a specific directory pretty easily:

gnome-terminal --working-directory=/home/user/my/custom/path

I add a little shortcut on the top panel by right-clicking and saying Add to Panel… and then creating a Custom Application Launcher and then pasting a command such as the above in the command box. I’m using Ubuntu 9.10, so it could be different in other versions.