New tabs should open in current working directory

[Jeremy Bícha]

It is expected that new tabs will open in the same working directory as the current tab.

This isn't working on Debian and Ubuntu yet.

gnome-terminal works because of this patch:
https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/gnome-terminal/-/blob/debian/master/debian/patches/Provide-fallback-for-reading-current-directory-if-OS.patch

[Sergio Costas (rastersoft-gmail)]

I sent two possible patches:

  https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/console/-/merge_requests/98

and

  https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/console/-/merge_requests/99

[Sergio Costas (rastersoft-gmail)]

Also, a quick solution (but should work only with BASH) is to edit the /etc/bash.bashrc file in the bash package and set

    PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\\033]6;file://${PWD}\\007"'

[Sergio Costas (rastersoft-gmail)]

In fact, I see that just adding

  if [ -f /etc/profile.d/vte-2.91.sh ];
  then
    source /etc/profile.d/vte-2.91.sh
  fi

to /etc/bash.bashrc should be enough...

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-console - 42~beta-2ubuntu1

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gnome-console (42~beta-2ubuntu1) kinetic; urgency=medium

  * debian/control: Recommend nautilus-extension-gnome-console
    (Closes: #1008833)
  * Cherry-pick patches to support x-terminal-emulator interface
  * Add debian/postinst & debian/prerm to register kgx as
    an x-terminal-emulator with priority 40 (Closes: #1008805) (LP: #1977767)
  * Add proposed patch to enable new tabs to open in current working directory.
    Thanks to Sergio Costas (Closes: #1008806) (LP: #1973825)
  * Explicitly opt in to Ubuntu language packs

 -- Jeremy Bicha <email address hidden> Fri, 29 Jul 2022 14:48:49 -0400