GNOME Console

New tabs should open in current working directory

Bug #1973825 reported by Jeremy Bícha on 2022-05-17

This bug affects 1 person

	Status	Importance	Assigned to
GNOME Console	New	Unknown	auto-gitlab.gnome.org-gnome-console-- #124
gnome-console (Debian)	Fix Released	Unknown	debbugs #1008806
gnome-console (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

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

See original description

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Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2022-05-17

Changed in gnome-console (Debian):
status:	Unknown → Confirmed

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2022-05-20

Changed in gnome-console:
status:	Unknown → New

Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) on 2022-06-27

description:

updated

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Sergio Costas (rastersoft-gmail) wrote on 2022-06-28:

I sent two possible patches:

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

and

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

Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) on 2022-06-28

Changed in gnome-console (Ubuntu):
status:	Triaged → In Progress

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Sergio Costas (rastersoft-gmail) wrote on 2022-06-29:

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"'

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Sergio Costas (rastersoft-gmail) wrote on 2022-06-29:

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...

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2022-07-29:

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