FS#36273 - [gnome-terminal] new tab always opens in home instead of previous tab pwd

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Stefano Teso (steso) - Thursday, 25 July 2013, 16:39 GMT
Last edited by Eric Belanger (Snowman) - Sunday, 28 July 2013, 18:37 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Hi,

when opening a new tab in gnome-terminal 3.8, the new tab is always opened in the home directory. This wasn't the case in previous gnome-terminal versions: new tabs were opened in the same pwd as the previous one.

From what I grasped from the upstream bug about it [1], the change is unintentional and related to Fedora specific changes in gnome-terminal/vte.

This is a *very* annoying bug for heavy terminal users, and may require downstream intervention. I'd be grateful if arch could either fix the thing properly or work around it in some fashion.

FYI, the actual arch package is gnome-terminal 3.8.4-1.

Thanks!

[1]https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697475
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Closed by  Eric Belanger (Snowman)
Sunday, 28 July 2013, 18:37 GMT
Reason for closing:  Duplicate
Additional comments about closing:   FS#35024 
Comment by Matthias Dienstbier (fs4000) - Friday, 26 July 2013, 22:34 GMT
Current solution is to enable the login shell option.
Comment by Stefano Teso (steso) - Saturday, 27 July 2013, 07:53 GMT
That indeed does the trick, thanks! Yet, it's not really discoverable...

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