I often need another terminal in the same working directory (debugging, compiling... there are many use cases). How can I launch a terminal (rxvt) via i3 and set it to the working directory of the currently selected window?
There is a script called cwd-spawn for urvxt which does this:
Sure, there you go: http://code.stapelberg.de/git/configfiles/tree/cwd-spawn
Hi,
Being faced with the same problem, I wrote a simple program, which seems to work in most cases: xcwd on github
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.
Great idea and quite simple solution! For me your script works only for terminals like urxvt or xterm. It does not work for gvim for example. Why you add 2 to pid ? Anyway this is version of your script that works for me: http://pastebin.com/eKy1smm1
I've modified the script to more reliably find the child process. It uses the pstree command. https://gist.github.com/viking/5851049
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.
Awesome! This works great for me! First solution that actually works with gnome-terminal... and taking the simplicity of this, I am sure it will work anywhere with bash. Cheers for sharing!
But that will force HDD to write data on every [Enter] press!
For those who worry about too many disk writes, on a relatively modern Linux installation you can change $HOME to $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR which should expand to a per-user directory for run-time volatile storage. This should normally be mounted as a tmpfs, so no worries wearing out your precious SSDs :)
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!
This does indeed work with pure urxvtd/c. However, it doesn't work in another situation which I find important. If I run mc (Midnight Commander), it switches to the folder from which mc was started, not to the current folder of mc. Some previous solutions work in this case with regular urxvt.
Perhaps a hybrid approach can be done inside the perl script, with xprop and if the process returned is URxvt then follow with this fork-here approach, but ideally we would use the xprop approach for everything, to launch a terminal in the same folder as, say, a pdf viewer, as explained by others :S
@machielo: My current solution is I modified fork-here to get the pid of the shell for urxvtd/c and then I use another solution to extract the folder of the deepest child. This works at least in the Midnight Commander case I mentioned above. Thanks for the fork-here extension!
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.
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...
Based on your idea of pstree I modified the script to walk to the deepest child with proper working directory. Here it is:http://pastebin.com/MEy9hXdr
For users of xfce4-terminal, like me, I put together a little shell script.
In ~/.i3/config:
bindsym $mod+T exec "~/.i3/xfce4-terminal-pwd.sh"
Asked: 2012-06-21 07:44:55 +0000
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