In Inkscape’s “Save” section of Preferences, it provides the option to either use the current working directory.

    The checkbox reads: Use current directory for “Save As…”

The hint text reads:

    When this option is on, the “Save as…” dialog will always open in the directory where the currently open document is;

    when it’s off, it will open in the directory where you last saved a file using that dialog.

When Inkscape is opened with no file specified on the command line, I assumed the Save As… dialog would come up focused on the directory that the user had “cd” to before invoking Inkscape from the shell, but the dialog always goes to my home directory.

Is this a matter of how our virtualized Linux environment is set up? Is there a way to pass a path on the Inkscape command line to explicitly set Inkscape’s “working directory”? I didn’t see any such parameter in the Inkscape command line help file.\

RHEL is the platform.

John