How to launch a terminal "from here"?

answered Apr 25 '13

schischi
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Hi,

Being faced with the same problem, I wrote a simple program, which seems to work in most cases: xcwd on github

answered Jun 21 '12

victor
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I wrote a simple script which seems to work:

#!/bin/bash
ID=$(xdpyinfo | grep focus | cut -f4 -d " ")
PID=$(($(xprop -id $ID | grep -m 1 PID | cut -d " " -f 3) + 2))
if [ -e "/proc/$PID/cwd" ]
then
    urxvt -cd $(readlink /proc/$PID/cwd) &
else
    urxvt
fi

With bindsym $mod+b exec ~/.i3/shell.sh in your config file.

answered Jul 1 '13

ack006
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updated Jul 3 '13

Here's my simple snippet for use with Bash, to be added to ${HOME}/.bashrc:

# Commands to be executed before the prompt is displayed
# Save current working dir
PROMPT_COMMAND='pwd > "${HOME}/.cwd"'

# Change to saved working dir
[[ -f "${HOME}/.cwd" ]] && cd "$(< ${HOME}/.cwd)"

No need to find the pid of the most recent shell, the only requirement is a shell which supports running a command either when the prompt is displayed or each time a command is entered at the prompt.

The saved directory even persists across logout/login, if you don't want that, simply delete ${HOME}/.cwd on logout.

Note: If you have multiple terminals open at different directories, switch to the terminal whose directory you want to 'clone', type <enter> or run some other command at the prompt to save that directory, then open a new terminal.

answered Apr 10 '15

machielo
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updated Apr 29 '15

For those of you using urxvtd/c, none of the above answers work. This, however, works:

github.com/myeisha/urxvt-fork-here

I use it like this in my .Xresources:

URxvt.perl-ext-common: others,fork-here
URxvt.keysym.Mod4-Shift-Return: perl:fork-here:fork-at-cwd

Then with Mod4+Enter I open a normal urxvtc terminal, but with Mod4+Shift+Enter I have the new urxvtc terminal "here", as the OP wants.

Remember to reread resources with xrdb ~/.Xresources, relaunch urxvtd to load the new perl extension, then relaunch a new urxvtc for it to take effect (or just reboot).

Hope this helps!

answered Jul 1 '13

V0id
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For zsh, I have the keybinding CTRL+N to open a terminal in the cwd of the current one.

# Open a new window in this term's cwd
alias nw="urxvt256c-mlc"
nwZle() { zle push-line; BUFFER="nw"; zle accept-line; }
zle -N nwZle
# CTRL+n
bindkey '^n' nwZle

Note the keybinding is only a shortcut to a command, so it works only when the prompt can accept a command. That is, either the line is blank or a command has been typed (in this case it will be restored upon launch), but not if you're in a pager, vim, a command is blocking, etc.

answered Sep 23 '12

joepd
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Wanted to comment, but there was not enough space...

I worked with Tahtisilma's script. I needed to add 1 to the PID, in stead of 2. This is because the working directory of the terminal is irrelevant, we need to have the one of the shell contained in the terminal. I used pstree -p to find the heuristics of PID-enumeration, and made a keybind to $mod+Shift+Return.

Beware: urxvt{d,c} does not work, as only the PID of the daemon is returned with xprop.

Would be cool to have a cwd-parser for more than just terminals, so you can open a term in the directory where you have a pdf loaded...

answered Jun 30 '15

ctemplin
1

For users of xfce4-terminal, like me, I put together a little shell script.

Here's a gist

In ~/.i3/config:

bindsym $mod+T exec "~/.i3/xfce4-terminal-pwd.sh"