using a custom desks directory makes desk not work properly

[MrMitch]

I tried to use a custom dir to store my desks so that i can version it using git and push it to my git server, but desk behaves quite weirdly.

mitch@pc$ desk ls
No desk dir! Run 'desk init'.
mitch@pc$ ls /home/mitch/Workspace/desks/
dash.sh  rdcli.sh  symfony.sh  wp.sh
mitch@pc$ desk init
Desk dir already exists at /home/mitch/Workspace/desks

[MrMitch]

resetting desks and making the ~/.desk/desks folder a symlink to my custom folder doesn't solve the problem

[jamesob]

Hey @MrMitch, sorry about that. Do you have DESK_DIR=/home/mitch/Workspace/desks/ somewhere in your environment?

[tompaton]

I think you want DESK_DESKS_DIR=/home/mitch/Workspace/desks/

I was about to submit a pull request that allows ~/.desk/desks to be replaced with a symlink before I found that option. (changing all instances of $DESKS to $DESKS/ worked form me in bash to force a symlink to be treated as a dir.)

[jamesob]

I'm not able to recreate on Ubuntu 14.04; I tried both a symlink (which is my current setup) and a custom path with export DESK_DIR=/some/path set in my ~/.zshrc.

@MrMitch can you give me more information about your environment?

[MrMitch]

I'm on Ubuntu 15.10 updated from a 15.04, running bash in Guake.
I'll try and reinstall desk tomorrow. Maybe it has something to do with the way I defined$DESK_DIR variable ? I added export DESK_DIR=/home/mitch/Workspace/desks to my .bashrc.

[tompaton]

EDIT - just noticed your PR above, you obviously grok this...

From what I can tell, $DESK_DIR should contain the "desks" directory, i.e. it defaults to ~/.desk, in your case you should be using: export DESK_DIR=/home/mitch/Workspace/

But as I mentioned above, it'll make more sense to point directly to your custom folder using: export DESK_DESKS_DIR=/home/mitch/Workspace/desks

[jamesob]

I think we're safe closing this out, no?