I like to use xfe because it's quick and I make use of the 3 panes. I'm using ubuntu and I like using gnome-terminal but I can't get xfe to launch gnome-terminal with the bash shell in the same folder as the xfe pane.
In xfe, if you press ctrl-t it'll open xterm (by default) in the current folder. I'd like that to happen in gnome-terminal instead. Sometimes I get errors, sometimes it just doesn't put me into the desired folder.
I've tried a few things
- using parameters with the -- and the -x (which tells me is deprecated in favor of --).
- I've created a script and tried cd $@ and $@ in various forms surrounded by double quotes and not
- Used a script to populate the --working-directory= surrounded by quotes and not
It works rather seamlessly without a lot of effort for xfce4-terminal, and I may just switch to that over xterm, but I'd still like to get it to work with gnome-terminal.
I think there's some confusion about "working directory"... i'm actually looking for bash to start in that directory once the terminal program opens, not necessarily that the terminal program itself starts in or uses the "working directory".
Ultimately, I want the output of pwd in a new terminal from xfe to be equal to the path of the selected pane in xfe. Call it whatever you want. The above are just some things that I tried.
.desktopfile and make one with a different setting for the working directory. Internally, it's just a text file.