Kitty Terminal Launch directory location?

Question

I switched from iTerm to Kitty.

In iterm I could set the starting location for new terminal windows to the desktop.

Which config option is this in kitty?

Answer 1

You can create a startup session file: see details here.

If all you want to do is start in a certain folder, the file could be named ~/.config/kitty/kitty-startup.session and consist of one line:

cd /path/where/I/want/to/start

If you want to make that session the default, in your kitty.conf put:

startup_session ~/.config/kitty/kitty-startup.session

You can have multiple session files and load whichever one you want with:

kitty --session /path/to/session/file

Though if all you want to do is start in a new folder, you can just give the folder name as argument as well:

kitty /path/to/folder