From c541adbe1e1c69113df5c55dc5063fe796f3500c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Antony Lee <anntzer.lee@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2017 11:15:55 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Backport PR #9410: BUG: Fix savefig GUI in GTK backend

---
 lib/matplotlib/backends/backend_gtk.py | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/backends/backend_gtk.py b/lib/matplotlib/backends/backend_gtk.py
index 45dd67442611..ec2d3a6a609d 100644
--- a/lib/matplotlib/backends/backend_gtk.py
+++ b/lib/matplotlib/backends/backend_gtk.py
@@ -711,6 +711,7 @@ def save_figure(self, *args):
         fname, format = chooser.get_filename_from_user()
         chooser.destroy()
         if fname:
+            startpath = os.path.expanduser(rcParams['savefig.directory'])
             # Save dir for next time, unless empty str (i.e., use cwd).
             if startpath != "":
                 rcParams['savefig.directory'] = (