Make kitty terminal emulator to use the current working directory for new windows

Question

Say I have a window in kitty and press ctrl+shift+enter to open a new window.

The new window always uses ~/ as current working directory. I'd like the new window to use the same working directory that the last window used.

Is this possible?

score 12 · Accepted Answer · answered May 28 '20 at 19:19

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In your kitty.conf, instead of using map ctrl+shift+enter new_window, use map ctrl+shift+enter new_window_with_cwd.

Couldn't find this in the documentation but the author mentions it in this issue.

answered May 28 '20 at 19:19

jqno

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It's somewhat hard to find, but it is in https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/conf.html#keyboard-shortcuts . – JdeBP May 28 '20 at 19:29
I used `map kitty_mod+enter new_window_with_cwd` and it worked perfectly. Thanks! – aaguilera May 28 '20 at 20:57
not working in ubuntu though - new window opens in home folder – Dmitry Nov 22 '21 at 07:52

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 24 '22 at 14:50

According to the documentation:

You can open a new window with the current working directory set to the working directory of the current window using:
map ctrl+alt+enter    launch --cwd=current

Works for me in Lubuntu 20.4:

~$ kitty --version
kitty 0.23.1 created by Kovid Goyal
~$ ack 'map ctrl\+shift\+enter' .config/kitty/
.config/kitty/kitty.conf
27:map ctrl+shift+enter launch --cwd=current

noAnton · Answer 3 · 2020-04-02T10:53:36.987

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You could save $PWD into a file and in your .bashrc change to the corresponding folder.

The following code is not a complete implementation but a proof-of-concept (which contains issues (e.g.: it does not handle parameters for cd)).

in .bashrc add following lines:

save_and_change_folder() {
  if [[ -d "$PWD/$1" ]]; then
    echo "$PWD/$1" > cat /home/<user>/.last_folder_visited
  fi
  cd "$1"
}
alias cd="save_and_change_folder"

if [[ -e "/home/<user>/.last_folder_visited" ]]; then
  cd "$(cat /home/<user>/.last_folder_visited)"
fi

edited Apr 02 '20 at 10:53

answered Apr 02 '20 at 10:41

noAnton

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Thanks for the reply. I was thinking more of something limited to kitty configuration options. Your solution is a good idea, but for me it's perhaps too coupled to bash configuration. – aaguilera Apr 02 '20 at 11:04

Make kitty terminal emulator to use the current working directory for new windows

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