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Feature request: default working directory of new tab

Bug #1027926 reported by Ozzin
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Bug Description

With Gnome Terminal, when I press Ctrl-Shift-N in an existing terminal to open a new one, it sets its default working directory to the match the one from the previous terminal. I find this to be very useful behaviour. If I want to get back to the home directory I can just "cd", but if it were to start in the home directory then I'll have to type quite a lot to get to the directory in which I was working.

Could this be implemented in Guake as well, when opening new tabs? Perhaps it could be a setting in the preferences, if not everyone would like it.

Great work on this project!

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Thomas Ward (teward) wrote :

I have sent this feature request upstream, and have marked the bug in Ubuntu as "Triaged" with the importance of "Wishlist" in accordance with how we triage feature requests.

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Thomas Ward
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Ubuntu BugSquad Member
Ubuntu BugControl Member

Changed in guake (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Triaged
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Changed in guake:
status: Unknown → New
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Ozzin (ozzin) wrote :

A somewhat hacky way to implement this is to change the line

self.add_tab()

to

self.add_tab(self.get_current_dir())

in the function accel_add() in guake.py. (It is on line 895 on my machine running guake 0.4.2, and the file is in /usr/lib/guake/)

This only causes the working directory to be used when a shortcut key is used to open the new tab -- not when the button is pressed. I tried modifying the add_tab() procedure to make it always do it, by checking if the 'directory' parameter was set, but couldn't get it to work. (I'm afraid I have very little python experience.)

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Tobiasz Jarczyk (dotnokato-q) wrote :

Hi, what version of guake are you using?
This feature is already present in 0.4.3.

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Changed in guake:
status: New → Confirmed
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Robert Matusewicz (matekm) wrote :

Implemented in guake since guake 8.2.0

Changed in guake (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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